October 27, 2015

We went to the library today to search for our next independent reading book. Students should read at least 2 books from the AP lists by the end of the 9 weeks. Lists are available on Classroom.

For our Writer's Notebook entry today, I read an entry from the 1000 Awesome Things blog, and students created their own lists of awesome things. We'll revisit those lists next week and develop that idea further.

We completed Session 1 of our Retellings unit. Students finished reading Bowen's "The Demon Lover" and discussed the characters and sequence of events with a partner. Then we created a document with the sequence of events from the story and information about the characters. We finished the session by creating a list of questions that we have about the story.

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