1. October 22, 2013

2. Page 69 Write this sentence from Pictures of Hollis Woods on that page. She took everything in then, and I with her: the house with the sloping roof, the evergreens leaning over it, the dark shadow that was the woodpile on the front porch.

3. Have you ever had an Aha Moment? Aha moments are those moments when you realize something, and that realization changes your actions in some way.

4. Just like you and I have aha moments, so do characters. Look for these clues that a character is having a realization: “Suddenly I realized” “In an instant I saw” “It came to me in a flash” “I now knew” “I finally understood” (or something like these statements)

6. How do these AHA MOMENTS help us understand the theme?

7. Small groups: 1.Vocabulary Review 2.Theme Practice 3.Academy of Reading on the Netbooks