January 22, 2016

Students spent the first 20 minutes of class finishing up the summer reading work on Classroom. They handed in the character cubing and qualities along with their book list from the summer.

We used the next 15 minutes to write in our Writer's Notebooks and read. Today's topic for the notebook was the reverse bucket list: We all have a list of things we want to do before we leave this earth. What are the things you never want to do? I never want to eat snails. That's at the top of my list!

Using the literary terms packet, students worked in groups to create a teaching poster for an assigned term. The poster included the definition, an illustration, examples from their summer reading, and tips and strategies for recognizing the term in literature. Students will present their posters to the class on Monday.

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