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Reading Workshop
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives
📖Continue reading & tagging your independent reading book
Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives & Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives
📙Continue exploring literary works from American Romanticism
Read, discuss, and respond to “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. See Google Classroom for assignment (under Academic Discourse Workshop). Due Thursday, 11/12.
Reading Workshop
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives
📖Continue reading & tagging your independent reading book
Reading Workshop & Academic Discourse Workshop
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives & Review Academic Discourse Workshop Objectives
📙Continue exploring literary works from American Romanticism.
Read and discuss "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Explore and discuss the significance of these“text to world” connections to Longfellow’s poem:
The Real Story of Paul Revere's Ride" from the Paul Revere House.
"Paul Revere's Ride" from the Maine Historical Society
From Share America: "Remembering a Patriot's 'Midnight Ride'"
📓In the back section of your reader’s and writer’s notebook, complete a quickwrite response to The Real Story of Paul Revere's Ride" OR "Paul Revere's Ride" (from the Maine Historical Society) OR "Remembering a Patriot's 'Midnight Ride'"
Set-up your entry like this:
title
Quickwrite Prompt Response:
borrow a line from the piece of writing and let it lead your thinking.
write about what you have seen or heard in the piece of writing – a theme or image or big idea.
write anything that the piece of writing brings to mind for you.
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives
📖Continue reading & tagging your independent reading book
📙Explore literary works from American Realism
Use these resources to develop the necessary background knowledge to read and discuss Kate Chopin’s short story: “The Story of an Hour":
"Sufferin' Until Suffrage" from Schoolhouse Rock
Reading Workshop
🎯Review Reading Workshop Objectives
📙Head up to the LMC to select a book for Independent Reading.
📕Mrs. Wooding will guide you through all of the options for reading - fiction, non-fiction etc. Once you have made your choice, check it out and move on to our new class reading tracker: What’cha Reading?
👥What’cha Reading? You’ll use this space to discover independent reading books your classmates recommend, share your independent reading journey, and keep track of your weekly reading goals. Click here to get started!
🎨Update your "Building My Stack” bookmarks.
🧩Explore the LMC. Find a completely non-digital (analog) game to play in collaboration with your classmates.
Yes- always! First, use this weekly workflow to keep track of deadlines and manage your time outside of class.
Next, thanks to independent reading, you always have reading to do. How much? Your Weekly Goal for Independent Reading (inside class and outside of class) is 40 minutes (minimum).
Lastly, most weeks we're working on vocabulary development. Use this page as a guide for your ongoing vocabulary work.
What'cha Reading? If you’ve switched your independent reading book or moved on to a new one,, click here.
Entries Prior to This Week
📓Back Half of Notebook
Entry #1: Response to "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" by Martin Espada.
Entry #2: The Crucible, Act I (see Google Classroom assignment for prompts)
Entry #3: The Crucible, Act II (see Google Classroom assignment for prompts)
Entry #4: The Crucible, Act III (see Google Classroom assignment for prompts)
Entry #5: The Crucible, Act IV (see Google Classroom assignment for prompts)
Entry #6: Quickwrite response to “To My Dear and Loving Husband” or “Poor Richard’s Almanac”.
Entry #7: Quickwrite response to "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" or "I Hear America Singing" or "Oh Captain! My Captain!".