Students started off class with notes on adjectives and worked on questions for the short story "Thank You Ma'am". After that, students were introduced to their first writing assignment; based on the story "Thank You Ma'am", they must write a letter to the character Ms. Jones. Students were given time to fill out the planning sheet and write a rough copy. The rough copy is due Monday.
We then went to the library and students picked books for their Independent Novel Study Assignment.
During the second period of class, students read silently for ten minutes before we moved onto an activity on 'themes'. We watched four Pixar short videos ("Twit Twit", "Presto", "For the Birds", and "Partly Cloudy"), then students split up in groups of four, and wrote out the types of conflict and themes for each video on chart paper. We then went over the ideas as a class. To finish, we read the story "Catch" in Sightlines 8.
Reminders:
- Finish ROUGH DRAFT of the letter to Ms. Jones: Monday, Feb. 23, 2015
