Dear Students,
I am sorry I am out today, I am at a conference called Literacy for All in Rhode Island. I will be attending workshops from Sunday through Tuesday to hear about all sorts of ideas that will help me continue my quest to make the class a place where everyone can (and wants to) grow as learners. In the meantime, I need you to be the respectful, conscientious and caring students I know and like so much. Please find your instructions below:
- Grab a new log on your way in-the new week is 11/16-11/23
- Staple your post its to the old log and turn that in (if you took actual post its, pull the ones from the pages on the log and put them on a stack on top of your log) (under 5 min)
- Settle into read your IR books-don’t forget to start a new sheet of post its. (10 minutes)
- Next look at the packet of poems the sub will give you. Read through each poem twice--the first time you are reading just to get the gist of the poem, the second time, you are annotating mark it up--note places you like, can relate to, are confused by, words you don’t know etc…
- After you have finished reading all of the poems in the packet twice and annotating them, rank the top 5 poems for you. A one should be assigned to the poem you like best all the way down to a 5 next to the poem you like least.
- Now go to the poem you ranked highest and explain what you like about the poem. Be specific about your reasons, this should be a paragraph or so and name reasons you like it! (write the paragraph right on the page that has the poem on it--if you need more room, attach a looseleaf sheet of paper to it)
- Now go to the poem you liked the least and in another paragraph tell why you didn’t like it by naming the specific reasons you did not like it. If it is a line, tell what the line says, if it is the subject/theme/layout be clear about what you think those things are.
If you do not finish all this reading and writing in class today, do not fret as you will be able to continue the work in class tomorrow. It must be completed and turned in by the end of class tomorrow so DO NOT lose it.
HW: Read/log/post it
