January 25, 2016

We started class with 15 minutes of independent reading. Following that, I introduced a close-reading process that students will use when they're asked to annotate what they read (the document is available on Classroom --> About --> Class Docs). We practiced with our first article of the week, a piece from The Week about DNA editing.

Students presented their literary terms posters to the class. To investigate the terms even further, students read and annotated three very short pieces. We'll get into the discussion of literary terms as they relate to these pieces tomorrow.

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