Hi 7th graders (and 7th grade parents/guardians/at home educators),
You did it! you made it to the end of the week! Day five of Distance Learning in the books! So many exclamation marks!
It was great to see a number of you on Teams yesterday. While the benefits are lifesaving and it’s incredibly important to stay socially distanced, it’s hard. Really hard. Really, really REALLY, REALLY hard. Seeing your faces, hearing your voices, and answering your questions made my day and renewed my motivation to stay distanced (the more we do it now, the sooner things we get back in the classroom, on the field, in the studio, in the movie theaters, at dances, and so much more!).
Thank you for being yourselves and reminding me of what’s important.
Today is a lighter day in Literature – you will have two to four things on your To Do List, depending on your work this week.
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- Daily Reading Log (35 minutes required)
- Daily Journal Entry (5 – 15 minutes required)
- Tangerine reading and discussion questions (20-30 minutes optional)
- Book Talk / Teams check in (2-5 minutes)
Here we go!
- Daily reading log (35 minutes – 30 for reading, 5 for reflection)
- I will check reading logs this weekend, so, if you haven’t sent me your online log, do so today.
- Remember – once you share your log with me (and give me editing power), you do NOT resend your log ever again! You’re free! Use that extra time to relax, look out the window, take care of other work, make a flip book, bake cookies, or, my personal favorite, have tiny (socially distanced) dance party.
- Enjoy your books (and your sweet, sweet dance moves)!
- Daily Journal (5 -15 minutes)
- Prompt: What is the first song on your socially distanced / quarantine / pandemic playlist? Why? Is it a song brings you down? Lifts you up? Helps you process? Gets you to dance it out?
- Weekend prompt: Write the best joke you’ve heard all week OR draw a comic strip of something you enjoyed over the weekend OR write whatever you want!
- Tangerine reading and discussion questions (20-30 minutes)
- Optional: If you need a break, take it! Contact me if you’re having trouble with the reading schedule.
- If reading Tangerine brings you joy, go for it!
- Book Talk / Teams check-in (2-10 minutes, depending on what you did yesterday)
- Everyone needs to:
- Review the Book Talk Presentation Schedule and double check their presentation date.
- If you did NOT check in with me on Teams yesterday, you need to:
- Check in with me today sometime between 9:15 – 10:45am.
- If you can’t be there at that time, send me an email and we’ll set something up.
- We will check that audio and visual work on both sides, go over presentation expectations, and answer any questions you might have.
- Check in with me today sometime between 9:15 – 10:45am.
- Everyone needs to:
And that, most wonderful students and parent/guardian at-home-educators, is everything. As always, contact me with any questions and have a wonderful weekend!