Friday, September 28th

Goals:

• I can explain how plot helps create meaning in my book and in a short story. 
• I can read a text closely, tracking my thinking in a reading journal. 

Announcements: 

• Read about 100 pages of your independent novel, tracking your thinking in your reading journal.  Ms. Feliks will assess reading journals this week.  

1. Reading and Working on Senior Portfolio

• Organize your page/share with table groups. 

2. Notes:  Setting, Symbols, Motifs & Tone

• Present your literary term to the class 

3. Discuss--"Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros

• What is interesting about this text?  
• Generate some thesis statements 

4. Write thesis statements about "Mericans"