What's up guys! It's Joe. I'll be your scribe for the week. Yeah buddy.
So today, we all got in, got all settled in our literature circle groups, and got ready for story time. Mrs. Ortega read us a (depressing!) storybook called Terrible Things by Eve Bunting (picture shown), which was an allegory for the Holocaust. After the story, we were instructed to discuss the story in our a literature circle groups for a couple minutes. A few people were called on to share out, then we continued on.
We all pulled out our notebooks, and begun to make our "Literature Circle Member Grids", assignment number 16. (*a simple grid with our group members names, and about five rows under them is about all it looks like. If you need any help with it, don't be afraid to ask me!)
After we were finished drawing this in, (without any rulers!), we talked about Highs and Lows of our weekends, and wrote them on our grids to warm us up for our Literature Circle discussions, which we started right after. The discussions took up most of the remainder of the block.
Mrs. Ortega outlined her desired homework criteria for us, which we were to write in on assignment 18, "Literature Circle Discussion 3 Preparations". She wishes for us to come prepared for discussions with four to eight discussion questions, and the pages we read for homework that night.
After we were finished drawing this in, (without any rulers!), we talked about Highs and Lows of our weekends, and wrote them on our grids to warm us up for our Literature Circle discussions, which we started right after. The discussions took up most of the remainder of the block.
Mrs. Ortega outlined her desired homework criteria for us, which we were to write in on assignment 18, "Literature Circle Discussion 3 Preparations". She wishes for us to come prepared for discussions with four to eight discussion questions, and the pages we read for homework that night.
We then had a couple of people share out about their Literature Circle books, and class was over!
Important things to remember / Homework:
- Ortega's Finished Book Competition has begun and is only going to span a month, so let's all read as quickly as we can for a house point!
- Work on your writing workshop pieces continuously, and try to have some sort of improvements on your piece by tomorrow, second rotation.
- Read your LC books, and prepare 4-8 open-ended-ish questions for discussions on Friday!
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