Today: We added words 3 and 4 to our vocabulary notebooks. Review numbers 1 and 2. We read at least 15 pages of our USSR book. You must remember to have your book here daily. If you wish, leave one at home to read and read a different book at school so you have two books going at once. I returned the lollipop moment paragraph. I was impressed by the detail, the editing, and the strength of your vocabulary and sentence structure. You can thank your grade 8 teachers and all the work you have done to increase your skills.
Congrats to the students who answered yesterday's blog question correctly. Your score is added to the bonus chart.
Creating a strong Opinion and Evidence chart.
When you make a comment about a character, it must be based on a phrase from the book. If you cannot pick out the example, you are grabbing an opinion from the sky, which is creative but does not demonstrate your ability to read, does it?
Opinion (Try to go beyond the obvious. Think) Evidence (a line or paraphrase)
Tonight: Finish reading Hugh Garner's story, "The Father". On each page, post-it note the line that you feel most reveals characteristics of the father. How is his personality revealed?
1. Through dialogue
2. Actions / reactions
3. symbols
4. What others say
5. thoughts
Bonus: Find out one fact about Hugh Garner, the Canadian author.
Tomorrow: We will be attending an event in the library after silent reading. If it takes the entire period, we will continue reading and discussing the story on Thursday. Tomorrow's event is called BookSmack. You can read about it on the bulletin board inside the learning commons.
