Reading prompts

Reading entry guidelines Place these entries in the back half of your warm-up journal. You may put some type of indicator between your warm-ups and your entries…like a sticky note! Each SSR writing entry should be at least 1/3 of a page in length in an average sized, legible handwriting. At the end of the class period, you will turn in your journal. You will receive all 25 points if you 1. followed the SSR guidelines and 2. followed the SSR writing entry guidelines.

1/18/19 Write down the first sentence of your novel and cite it. Ex: (Smith 175). How does it draw you in? Explain.

1/25/19 When you read this book, what mood does it put you in? Why does this book make you feel that way? Explain. Your entries need to be more than a chain of vague thoughts or questions. Make sure you add a piece of analysis.

2/1 Describe the setting of your novel. Explain why you would/would not like to have lived in the time or place of the story.  If you’ve lost points on previous entries, be sure to add detail and analysis to your subsequent responses.

2/15 Conflict is the struggle between two opposing forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot. Describe the major conflict in your novel and how it is being developed. What type of conflict would you categorize it as? Make sure your journal entries are labeled by date. Make sure you have at least 6 sentences in each response. Turn in you journal before you leave today.

3/1 Pick up your journal. Today, please read quietly following the SSR guidelines then respond in your journal to the following prompt: Consider (and identify) the narrator of your novel or the point of view from which your story is told. How does this point of view help to determine or establish a central theme or idea of the story? You need to identify the narrator or point of view and the theme or main idea you are focusing on. The elaboration should come from how the two are connected. These entries will be collected and graded after our next SSR (3/22) entry after Spring Break  You should be finished with the book you have been reading throughout Q3 and have a new book for Q4. We will not be going to the library together this time, so you need to find time to get something new to read on your own.

Standards Mastery You need a PENCIL to take the Standards Mastery today. If you do not have one, please borrow one from me – they are at the front of the room. Try your best on this as it will be for a grade. There are 20 total questions over 2 passages. When you are finished turn in your response sheet to the period tray and return the text to the front of the room.

3/22 Take a few minutes to review for your vocabulary quiz. You will need a piece of paper and something to write with. I will collect units 16 & 17 before you take the quiz. When you are finished with your quiz, turn it in and then read your new SSR book. If you don’t have one you may borrow one from the class library. I will put up the journal prompt toward then end of the period. You will turn in your journal today as I will be grading entries from 3/1 and 3/22.

3/22 Take a few minutes to review for your vocabulary quiz. You will just need something to write with. When you are finished with your quiz, turn it in and then read your new SSR book. If you don’t have one you may borrow one from the class library. I will put up the journal prompt toward then end of the period. You will turn in your journal today as I will be grading entries from 3/1 and 3/22. If you were not here yesterday, make sure you check out the CONCLUSION directions on my webpage and pick up the CONCLUSION technique notes from me 

3/22 Make sure you have a book to read throughout Quarter 4  Remember these entries should be at least 6 sentences and show analysis, not just summary. *Record a specific idea that really confused/intrigued you in the reading you did for today. Describe what was confusing or why this stuck out to you and why you might want to go back to this part in the text.*