After independent reading time, students picked a word to share and define in their writer's notebooks. My word was intonation: the pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech, especially the pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures. This word comes from the non-fiction book The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higoshida (5 out of 5 stars!).
We had a mini-workshop to prepare a thesis statement for the summer reading essay that's coming up on Friday. We used Nearpod to look at examples of effective and ineffective thesis statements and strategies for improving a thesis (here's the slideshow we used). Here's another good resource on how to write a thesis statement.
In 1st and 2nd period, we revisited our trio of excerpts. Focusing on just one piece this time, students worked independently using the DIDLS strategy. We'll expand on the chart tomorrow. (3rd period will start this activity tomorrow...where does the time go?!)
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