Skills

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Today, I am in the building, but not in the class.

You will be practicing how to create a reader’s journal with the story “Things that Fly” by Douglas Copeland.

1) Read your independent novel for 20 mins. If you are finished your class novel, please choose a book to read from the library.

2) Review the Elements of Fiction, make notes on anything that is new for you, or that you think you will have trouble remembering. This is the language we need to use when we write or speak about literature.

3) Read “Things that Fly” and annotate (make connections, ask questions of the text, identify narrative elements, identify other literary devices like symbolism, foreshadowing, heroic journey steps, archetypes).

4) Create a reader’s journal (both inspectional and analytical) for “Things that Fly”.

5) Submit your annotated text and the reader’s journal to the supply teacher at the end of class.

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

We will continue to read our independent novel. If you didn’t set a reading rate yesterday, be sure to let me know to time you.

We will complete our academic goal planning frame, and post our goals on Sesame.

Finally, we are going to review ways to annotate a non-fiction text and practice those skills with “What to do when you’re not the hero anymore” by Laurie Penny. I think you’ll like this post because it challenges the patriarchal society of North America (at least).