1. We need folders and writers’ notebooks!

2. What do you notice about the following sentence? Genette's bedroom desk, the biggest disaster area in the house, is a collection of overdue library books, dirty plates, computer components, old mail, cat hair, and empty potato chip bags.

3.  An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.noun phrase Example 1: During the dinner conversation, Clifford, the messiest eater at the table, spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano. Example 2: A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.

4. We need to establish some ground rules to help each other and work on specifics to make our meetings work!

5. Thoughts love. They look. Eye-brood or smile. Thoughts blurt, race-rush, or wait a while. Thoughts trapped inside, may blame and boil. Review. React. Relate. Recoil. Thoughts expressed may find a way to take a stand, find solutions, Lend a hand. Thoughts That can’t find words exist, resist, insist unheard.

6.  Weird title! What do you think it will be about?  Stop after each dot and jot your thinking during the 1 st reading. (there are 4!)  2 nd reading… record your thinking using the “Thinking Chart” (5 minutes)  Now, with your shoulder partner, share what you wrote (3 minutes)… ADD TO YOUR NOTES!  Last step: Create a one-sentence theme statement with your partner. What is the point of the story? Support this with details from the story.

7.  Do you agree with each other?

8.  You will need to make a calendar!