Week of 9/25 Computer Monday Login to Edmodo. Make sure you can login to Edmodo, quizlet, and NoRedInk. If you cannot, see me during your connections, or before or after school.

9/26/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

Lit Circle Notes: Introduction Deadline You must finish the book and all related assignments by: Friday October 13th.

Assessment You will be assessed according to: `• the quality of your contributions to your lit circle discussion `• the extent to which you keep up with your responsibilities to your group `• the quality of your ideas on your Lit Circle Notes `• the quality of your group’s discussion

Assignments Your group must: `• assign itself the reading for each day, pacing yourselves so you get it done by October 13th. `• hold each member accountable for work, contributions to discussion, and respectful participation `• rotate the assigned roles so that each day someone has a different responsibility; when you complete one cycle through the group, begin again as you think appropriate, rotating jobs daily.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Discussion Director: Your role demands that you identify the important aspects of your assigned text, and develop questions your group will want to discuss. Focus on the major themes or “big ideas” in the text and your reaction to those ideas. What interests you will most likely interest those in your group. You are also responsible for facilitating your group’s discussion.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Illuminator: You find passages your group would like to/should hear read aloud. These passages should be memorable, interesting, puzzling, funny, or important. Your notes should include the quotations but also why you chose them, and what you want to say about them. You can either read the passage aloud yourself or ask members of your group to read roles.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Illustrator: Your role is to draw what you read. This might mean drawing a scene as a cartoonlike sequence, or an important scene so readers can better understand the action. You can draw maps or organizational trees to show how one person, place, or event relates to the others. Use the notes area to explain how your drawing relates to the text. Label your drawings so we know who the characters are. Make your drawing on the back of this page or on a separate sheet of paper.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Connector: Your job is to connect what you are reading with what you are studying or with the world outside of school. You can connect the story to events in you own life, news events, political events, or popular trends. Another important source of connections is books you’ve already read. The connections should be meaningful to you and those in your group.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Word Watcher: While reading the assigned section, you watch out for words worth knowing. These words might be interesting, new, important, or used in unusual ways. It is important to indicate the specific location of the words so the group can discuss these words in context.

9/27: Bear Time – Free Write Follow the Free Write Rules that you wrote down yesterday. Write until the timer goes off.

Lit Circle Notes: Overview of the Roles Summarizer: Prepare a brief summary of the day’s reading. Use the questions to the right to help you decide what to include. In some cases, you might ask yourself what details, characters, or events are so important that they would be included on an exam. If it helps you to organize the information, consider making a numbered list or a timeline.

Glue in your sample questions for each job. 9/27 Glue and Do Glue in your sample questions for each job.

9/27: Mini-Lesson - Lit Circle Preview – in your notebook Book Title  1. Who wrote it? 2. Read the back cover. In one sentence, what is the book about? 3. What is the genre? 4. How many pages does the book have? 5. How many chapters does the book have? 6. If the chapters have titles, list two that sound interesting. 7. Read any reviews on the book cover. List any awards, honors the book received. 8. Describe the main conflict/outcome you think will happen in the book. 9. How do you think you can relate to the book? 10. Do you think you will like the book? Why or why not?

9/27 Writing Workshop: Plan your reading In your notebook, plan out how much you will read each day as a group. The last day is Oct 13th. Mondays are for computers. List the dates and page numbers you will read as a group.

9/28/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqFvWE h9nQ 9/28 Mini- Lesson Book Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYqFvWE h9nQ

Choose your jobs for the day and do the handouts for them. 9/28 Writing Workshop Choose your jobs for the day and do the handouts for them. Make sure your job sheets are in the folder with your name on them at the end of class.

9/29: Bear Time – Free Write Follow the Free Write Rules that you wrote down yesterday. Write until the timer goes off.

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9/29/17: Author’s Spotlight On a notecard, write the following: Your name and today’s date The topic and date of your writing What did you like about it? How would you improve it? Do NOT use: “Add details”, “Make it longer”, “Finish it”, or “Write More” Try: develop my ideas, increase my sentence variety, increase my formal vocabulary, use a formal style…..