1. Personal Choice Reading Get out your Personal Choice Reading (PCR) book and start in. We’ll have 15-20 minutes to read today. Get out your Personal Choice Reading (PCR) book and start in. We’ll have 15-20 minutes to read today. Don’t have your book? Explore the class library and find one. Check out your book on the library clipboard. Don’t have your book? Explore the class library and find one. Check out your book on the library clipboard. Give your book a chance, but if you can tell right away that you haven’t picked a good fit, put it away and find another one. Give your book a chance, but if you can tell right away that you haven’t picked a good fit, put it away and find another one. Be thinking about the “marking up a text” symbols and how you’ll make a connection to your reading in your journal. Be thinking about the “marking up a text” symbols and how you’ll make a connection to your reading in your journal.

2. Did anyone finish a book since last class?

3. Talk about books… Take a few minutes and share last night’s journal entry with a partner. What connection did you make to the text (what symbol did you use)? Be specific… not just “this part was cool.”

4. Get out your article and the survey results from Tuesday (It’s the “Snookie” article and the notes from our in-class survey)

5. Socratic Seminar Prep: CONSTRUCTING QUESTIONS Yesterday we learned about constructing level 1 and level 2 questions. Yesterday we learned about constructing level 1 and level 2 questions. Take a minute and review the difference with a partner (I’ll call on you using cards to tell the class, so be ready!) Take a minute and review the difference with a partner (I’ll call on you using cards to tell the class, so be ready!) Let’s hear a few more examples from the groups we didn’t hear from yesterday. Let’s hear a few more examples from the groups we didn’t hear from yesterday.

6.  These are questions that can be answered from looking at the text

7. SOCRATIC SEMINAR: 4 QUESTIONS 1.Each person creates four questions on the sheet (One level 1, three level 2/3) 2.Each person gets the signatures of four peers who verify that the questions are the right levels and identify their favorite question. 3.When you have all questions written and all signatures, have Mr. T initial your paper. THIS IS YOUR TICKET INTO THE SEMINAR/DISCUSSION. 4.When you finish, go back to marking up our two texts— the “Snookie” article and the survey results.

8. Socratic Seminar Packet Hang on to EVERYTHING! It will all be turned in after the Socratic Seminar in a packet. Hang on to EVERYTHING! It will all be turned in after the Socratic Seminar in a packet. Start thinking about a piece of EVIDENCE that you can bring to the discussion: Start thinking about a piece of EVIDENCE that you can bring to the discussion: A personal experience? A personal experience? Something you heard or read related to the topic? Something you heard or read related to the topic? A question that you could research? A question that you could research?