As a reminder, it is so important to check your planner against our classroom calendar each week. Our calendar is updated weekly, so try your best to find some time to sit down with your planner to make sure you have everything copied down. All major projects and tests are usually on the calendar BEFORE an announcement is made in class. It is your responsibility to check the calendar weekly! Thank you!
Before the brief Thanksgiving holiday break, we carved out some time in class for students to think about some of the things they are thankful for in their lives.
During the past week we tried a close reading of Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken. A close reading has students read a rich and complex text multiple times while frequently discussing. During a first reading, we try to get the gist of the text. During our second reading, we focus more deeply on the craft and structure of the text; how is the text organized, structured? What word choices did the author make? What text features do I notice? And for this particular poem, we also looked at rhyme scheme and pattern. With our third reading, we attempt to make connections with text.
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