March 2

4A will meet with Melissa for a second.

  1. Complex sentences

  2. Reading time/time to work on your individual author research assignment.

  3. Discuss your individual author assignment

  4. Prepare for a socratic seminar in your small groups. Some thought starters:

  • What big ideas are being developed?

  • What conflict arises?

  • What do these conflicts tell the reader?

  • What claims does the author make? What passages support these claims?

Track your confusion.

      • What’s confusing at the beginning of the book? Does the confusion remain or does it clear up?

      • What passages/sentences/words do you find confusing? Show evidence that you are wrestling with the confusion.

“That” statements

  • This passage makes me think that

  • This makes me feel that

  • The author is suggesting that

Thought starters:

  • I noticed

  • I wonder

  • I was reminded of

  • I think

  • I’m surprised that

  • I’d like to know

  • I realized

  • If I were

  • The central issue(s) is (are)

  • One consequence of____ could be_____

  • If ________ , then______

  • I’m not sure___

  • Although it seems


Homework: Read to your assigned page and prepare for your socratic seminar. You should be about/at least halfway through next class.