Greetings and salutations 8th graders (and parents / guardians / online learners looking for content),
Today is a great day for learning!…I mean, every day is a great day for learning, but today feels particularly auspicious.
You have two items for your Literature To-Do List and they should look pretty familiar:
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- Reading Log (35 minutes)
- Monologue memorization (10 – 15 minutes)
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Here we go!
- Reading Log (35 minutes – 30 minutes reading, 5 minutes reflecting)
- Read for 30 minutes and use the reflecting time to complete your reading log.
- Note: Remember to change the type of evidence you use every day.
- You can reuse the type of evidence every few days, but not the same one day after day after day after day.
- I love books, but looking at a picture of the page you’re reading is not nearly as interesting as reading your thoughts about the book in a summary, prediction, illustration, character sketch, etc.
- If you want to take a picture every few days, go for it! You could include a pet, a sibling, a dramatic expression, an interesting locale. You’re creative individuals, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
- Whatever you choose, have fun with it!
- Monologue Memorization (10 – 15 minutes)
- Keep working on memorizing the separate sections of your monologue.
- Find a quiet space (if this is possible) and pick up where you left off yesterday – if you finished working on section 1, move on to section 2, and so on.
- There are many different memorization methods, so please let me know if you need some extra help.
That’s everything for today. As always, contact me with questions (or if you have a really good cookie recipe)!