Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break!I hope we all had a wonderful, relaxing and safe holiday! It's great to be back at school, and starting up our identity unit again! We are kicking off the week with Spelling Unit 16. This is a tricky unit, so make sure you are taking your time and studying these words. Working with them on the pages has proven to be a struggle, as well, so take your time! Next we are going to talk about annotating, and how we are going to be doing that with our novel studies. Using our read aloud book Chains we are going to read the chapter, and annotate to better understand Isabel's identity. Our rules for annotating are as follows: 1. highlight any areas that give us information about our character's identity 2. underline any areas of the text that confuse you (events, etc) 3. circle words you do not understand 4. write questions, comments, connections, and explanations in the margins These rules apply not only to our example annotating today, but also to our novel studies as well. It's going to be great, you guys! I can't wait to start!
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Happy Friday, everyone! We made it!! Spelling Unit 14 is due today. We are going to correct the homework, and take the final test today. We are also going to be talking about our novels for the Identity unit. HA! I bet you all thought you could get out of a novel in this unit, but you can't! We are going to a thematic unit, meaning everyone will be reading a book about identity. However, the catch is, everyone might be reading a different book. We won't necessarily be talking about one character, one plot, or one conflict. Everyone will have a different thing going on, and we can compare our characters, compare our plots, compare our conflicts. I think this might be fun for us to try. Essential questions are going to be so important with this unit, because we will have something different going on. We're going to book talk some of these books, and then you can sign up for a book to read this quarter. We will be starting these very soon; so you have to make up your mind about which one you are interested in. Bring your book, friends! It's time to silent read!
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February 2017
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