1. 01/20/15 (B) 01/21/15 (A) Library Writer’s Warm-up Vocabulary Set 4 Book Club Choices Wonder 7.4 (Vocabulary): Students will read to determine the meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words and phrases within authentic texts.

2. Announcement!  I have updated and renovated the class website on the J. Michael Lunsford page.  I hope it is a resource you will refer to often for missing work/class.  Always feel free to email me with any questions or concerns: rwatkins@lcps.org

3. Library  Good morning! Grab your writer’s notebook for the warm- up for later today.  If you have any books to return, please go grab them. We will be going to the Library this morning

4. Writer’s Warm-up Grab your Writer’s Notebooks for the following warm-up: One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. Just vanished— along with everyone else over the age of 14 in a 100- mile radius around South Riding, VA. In one instant adults were gone and we were all that was left. Begin writing your story where this has left off. Stay in the first person. What would you do? How would society survive? What would you do to survive? Things to consider: Washington D.C. is roughly 45 miles away; Parents/Adults would be gone; There would probably be accidents around the area from grown- ups disappearing; Television & News wouldn’t be working--unless run by children 14 & Under.

5. Gone By Michael Grant  Looking for a new series?  5 books  Dystopian  Male, first person  As soon as you turn 14 you you disappear.  Children have to rebuild society. Mini Book Talk!

6. Vocabulary Set 4!  Please take out a pencil.  We will begin Vocabulary Set 4 for Quarter 3.  First formative will be Thursday (B) and Friday (A).

7. Book Club: Quarter 3!  Today we will be starting BOOK CLUBS!  In order to make choices you will circulate around the room to read the covers (front and back) of the books.  What to look for:  Determine the genre based off of the description.  Read the first paragraph.  Five word rule.  Walk away with top 4 choices.

8. Book Club Titles 1. Girl Stolen 2. When the Emperor was Divine 3. Unwind 4. Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 5. Between Shades of Grey 6. Code Talker 7. Frederick Douglas & Abe Lincoln 8. All But My Life 9. Miss Jane Autobiography 10. Flip 11. House of Scorpion

9. Constructive time: Please use your time wisely to complete any of the following that apply to you.  Missing, Late, Retake work. Today is the last day to turn in any work! (Come see me if you are unsure.)  Reflect on a precept: Free write by responding to a precept you know of, see around the room, or have taken from Ms. Watkins’s list.  Free write: Free write a short story or continue today’s warm-up.  Read your independent reading novel silently.