Monday and Tuesday in ELA

Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

First of all, students:

• You are (and have been since school started) supposed to be reading each night for 30-45 minutes.  
• 5 nights a week, you are supposed to be creating an entry in your RRJ (Reading Response Journal).   
• Each entry should be ONE PAGE long.  The first paragraph should be a summary of what you read that night (Good summaries include Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How).  
• The second paragraph should be a reflection of what you read (what you thought about the section you read, what it made you feel, new words you learned, connections you made, predictions for next chapter, etc)
• Again, you should have 5 entries a week.  If you forget a day during the week, you can make it up on the weekend.  If you do more than 5, you get bonus points!
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I am picking up 501's RRJ's THIS FRIDAY, October 6th.

I will be picking up 502's RRJ's Next Friday, October 13th.

I will alternate between picking up 501 and 502 RRJ's each Friday!

We have been working on Characterization and Setting this week in ELA.  We have added to our study of character traits and using the text to prove their traits and now we are looking how the setting can make the character react differently.  We finished Chapter 11 today and started chapter 12.  We have 18 chapters in our book "Night of the Spadefoot Toad".  

We are practicing what we are studying in Reading in our narrative writing.  Students are using characterization, setting, and sequence to move the plot along.  We are reading the book "Wonder" and using that character to shape our writing.  It is kinda impressive that we are up to page 135 in our reading novel and page 55 in our writing novel. This just goes to show that we are reading, discussing, and writing quite a bit in Room 403.

Homework:

1. Homework Packet #4 (Monday - Wednesday - Practice Pages, Thursday - Last Pages)
2. Read 30-45 minutes each night in Independent Reading Book (5 RRJ entries each week)