Thursday,+September+30,+2010

Bell Ringer
Open your Google Docs and "Share" your paragraph on diction with me (cafeharmon@gmail.com) and your table mates. Be sure to give them editing privileges!

Mini-Lesson

 * Discuss the "Descriptors" page I gave you. What is your teacher looking for when you write a paragraph, such as this one, that analyzes style?
 * Take turns at your table reading each paragraph together. Google Docs allows you to collaborate and make notes and changes on papers! Discuss papers together and use the rubric to score each one.
 * ===In the comment box, you must right 2 things the writer did well and 2 things the writer could improve on!===

Make any revisions needed on your paragraph. As long as you have already shared it with me, it is turned in with all of your latest revision.

Independent Reading Time
In grading journals, I have discovered the need to talk about making connections. As we read, good readers make connections to the characters, conflicts, themes. =Text to TEXT = How does this compare to other texts you have read? Anything with a similar mood or tone? Anything set in the same time period? Anything that you have read that is the same genre? What about the same "big picture" ideas? =Text to SELF = What connections can you make to your own life? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you see similarities between a character and yourself? What would you do? How would you feel? =Text to WORLD = Does anything like this ever happen in society? Have you seen anything that reminds you of this on the news? Do you see similar situations or themes in your school? Your town? Your country? As you journal, make some of these associations with your text. Discuss the connection you make in your journal.

Homework
Keep reading! I will be grading thINK posts and Goodreads reviews this weekend. (Those that I haven't graded yet, anyway!)