Thursday, September 27th

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. 
• For Friday (tomorrow), bring in one page a year-long project: Senior Portfolio. You need an artifact and a piece of writing.   
• Reminder--if I graded something, and you turn it in after it is in the gradebook, I need a late slip for it! 

1. Reading or RI

RI pre-test 

• Go to the media center site
• Click on Reading Inventory 
• Your username is your student ID
• Password=Gmail password

2. Notes:  Setting, Symbols, Motifs & Tone

• Look up two sources to find the definition of each of the Literary Terms and add it to the Slideshow
• Choose 3 texts that most people in this class have read, and describe how your term works in that text to help the meaning. 

3. Discuss--"Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros

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