Mon. 2/16/15

Learning Target:

• Write a well-supported argument in response to an article

Work Collected:

• Weekly reading check-in (orange form) for week 6

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• AoW due Wed.
• 1st lit. circle reading due Fri. (see your group calendar)

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Fill out a weekly reading check-in (orange form) for week 6
• Participles: 3 sentences to write in your notebook 
• AoW
• Change in format: write up an argument in response to the article (1st paragraph = summary, author's purpose, and your opinion; rest of paragraphs = support/explain your opionion)

• Steps: read and annotate the article (on newsela.com), then write your reflection (summary + argument in Google Doc)
• This week: conferences with Miss Johnson and Mrs. Boyden about your memoir