Foci: Belief Project Wrap-Up and What is a Literature Circle?
Notes: No School Friday, March 7 (next Friday)
***If students would like to bring small tokens of appreciation to present to Kati and Molly in thanks for their work, have them ready for Wednesday.***
NO WEEKLY HOMEWORK THIS WEEK
MONDAY:
Community Forum 8:45-10:15
Catch-up periods: 4,5,6
TUESDAY:
All Belief Project work must be in and on display boards by today: collage, poem, essay!!!
Web Quest - Vocabulary Games
Apostrophe Practice
WEDNESDAY:
Belief Project Celebration with Mrs. Hoelscher's classes and Molly and Kati!!!
THURSDAY:
Mrs. Swiggum (media center director) will be here introducing our Literature Circle novel selections. Students will vote according to interest, and be grouped according to preference. These groups will function as 3rd and 4th quarter base groups. The theme for our Literature Circles is disability/disease/handicap. We will be exploring the realities and practical implications of autism, leukemia, muteness, cerebral palsy, and blindness, as presented in these works. This project will span five weeks. The selections include:
1. Al Capone Does my Shirts by Jennifer Coldenko
2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
3. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
5. Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer
FRIDAY:
Begin Literature Circles
Meet your group
WEEKEND HOMEWORK:
Begin your reading according to group schedule and prepare your discussion sheets according to roles.
1 comment:
Thats lame that they ran out of time and i didn't get to ask my deep deep question to the college student. aaahhh! grrr! Hopefully next time!
Shelly
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