Students needed another day to finish their interim assessments.
Oct. 25
It is time for interim assessments. Students took their first interim ELA exam today. Some need to finish tomorrow.
Oct. 21
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Look at the photos and decide what they are. This is an example of point of view using photos.
Oct. 21
Point of view is the perspective from which a literary work is told. A narrative with first-person point of view uses the pronouns I, me, and my. The reader knows only what the narrator knows and chooses to share about other characters and the events in which they are involved.
A narrative with third-person point of view is told by someone outside the action. Sometimes, this narrator is limited and reveals only his or her own thoughts and feelings. At other time, the narrator is omniscient, or all-knowing, and able to reveal the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story.
Students are determining the point of view for their novels and considering how the novel would change if the point of view was changed.
Oct. 18
Sorry I haven’t been posting the daily lesson. Students are still reading the assigned novels and completing journal entries as well as assignments that address particular literary elements. The assignment for character motivation should be handed in. Today I introduced the topic of point of view. The predict, theme, and point of view assignments will be finished this week. Students are responding to their novels on their individual blogs. See Mrs. Trabert’s Book Club blog.
Oct. 11
The lesson today was character motivation. Character motivation is the reason or reasons behind a character’s behavior. It helps the reader understand the characters and the action in the story. I read a story called “Eleven” to show students how to find the character’s motivation. Students read their assigned novels and wrote the answers to the associated questions in their journals.
Sadly 2 Ipod touches were taken from our classroom today. One has been found, but the other one is still missing.
Oct. 7
Today was the day that students experienced blogging! They were able to change the appearance of their blog, their password, and write a response for their novels. We did experience some frustration with the blog site not working all the time. So some students didn’t get to do all of the activities. The blogs are located on Mrs. Trabert’s Book Club site. All of the student sites are listed by period on separate pages. Check out Brittney in period 6 for an excellent example of responding to your reading.
Oct. 6
Today was small group discussion day with the novels. Students are half finished and should be working on the prediction page. The lesson was finding foreshadowing and making predictions.
Oct. 5
The lesson for today was foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is what authors do to give the reader clues to make predictions. Students are reading novels and looking for foreshadowing to make predictions in their books. Time was given to read and respond to the questions about the reading in journals today. The assignment for internal and external conflict needs to be handed in to be graded.
Any scholastic book orders need to be turned in by Thursday, Oct. 7.
