Tuesday September 23, 2014 Write in your agenda: Library Memoirs Homework: Read for AR/Complete Annotation Log. Open House 5:30-7pm

Library ● You need to bring your AR contract and your agenda to the library. ● You will need to have all your AR pts. by next Friday. ● You will log onto the computer using your purple computer username and password. ● You should locate books in your reading level using Destiny Quest.

Interactive Notebook ● In the table of contents add: Memoir Anchor Chart- page Memoir T-chart- page 39

Looking For America ● We are going to read Looking for America as a class on page 476 in the blue text book. ● You will be answering several comprehension questions and will answer each question in a complete sentence using text evidence.

● We are going to learn how to expand our kernel essay using revision stations. ● The first revision is the “snapshot”. Imagine that you are looking at a photograph of that moment. Use words to describe everything you can see in the snapshot. ● The second revision is the 5 senses. Write details to show every one of the senses.  What did you see? What did you feel?  What did you hear? What did you taste?  What did you smell? ● The third revision is the thought shot. Imagine that people could hear everything you were thinking at that moment. Write down everything that went through your head, everything you thought right then. ● The fourth is the dialogue challenge. Imagine all the conversation that went on at that moment. Write down everything everyone said. ● The last revision station is the Ba-Da-Bing challenge. Write one Ba-Da-Bing sentence for that moment. This includes  Where your feet were right then ● What your eye saw right then ● What you thought right then Kernel Essay