Thursday Oct. 18

Plan for today

• SSR
• Lit. Circles
• Share out 

Today in class, we began by reading 20 minutes for SSR. We then proceeded to fill in our membership grid (A#11) which was about how adventurous or picky eaters we are. Then the conversation transitioned to our literature circle discussions. 

Homework

• LC Disc. Prep 8
• Writing Workshop due Oct. 27

Reminders

• Book Competition-if you are done reading a book, see Ortega during SSR so it could be counted towards the competition. 

Wednesday Oct. 17

Plan for today

• SSR
• Writing Feedback
• Workshop

Today in class, we did 20 minutes of SSR. After that we gave feedback to Dominic's essay. We concluded the class by working on our writing workshop pieces by editing our essays or by rewriting them.

Homework
LC Disc. Prep 7
Writing Workshop essay due Oct. 27 on turnitin.com

Reminders
Book Competition-if you are done reading a book, see Ortega during SSR so it could be counted towards the competition. 

Monday Oct. 15

Plan for today:

• SSR
• Song Parodies
• LC Disc. Prep 6
• Share Out

Today in the beginning of class, we read for 20 minutes as usual. After that we proceeded to hear "I want it that way" and the song parody called E-bay. This was due to Mrs.Ortega telling us that for our Literature Circle Presentations, we can do a song parody that relates to our book. We then transitioned into having our book discussions. Mrs. Ortega concluded the class by asking groups to share out their song parodies. Good job to Amanda's group and Tony's group for sharing out! 

Reminders:

For Wednesday's class, please bring your printed essay you turned in to turnitin.com and your printed peer review that someone did of your paper! Also put the handouts that you got from the library last Friday into your notebook for A#22. For the last reminder, remember to do LC Disc. Prep 7.

Wednesday October 10th

Why hello there my fellow South-ians.

Plan:

• SSR
• Peer Review Instructions
• Writer's feed back.
• Workshop
• Independent Study

Today in class we spent time going over the process of peer reviewing everyone's first drafts that will be submitted to turnitin by Saturday. Then we read Danny's delightful story about Jaunito the peguin and Lucas the arctic wolf. We did some feed back and told him that it needs to be more direct and real for colleges not to push it aside. Then we had time to work on our pieces and hopefully start to finish up. I'm not exactly sure what independent study was, but we sure didn't get to it! Anyways, that's all. Tata for now! 

Monday October 8th

Today's Plan:

• SSR
• Three Little Pigs A#23
• LC Discussion

Reminders: 

• Keep reading to finish your books so we can win the book competition!
• Have a typed version of your writing workshop piece ready to turn in to turnitin this week.

Today we read for SSR, then we read the Three Little Pigs to learn how to get textual evidence, which is assignment 23. Then we discussed our literature circle books and any questions with our groups.

Wednesday, October 3rd

Today's Plan:

• SSR
• Writer's Feedback
• Writing Workshop
• Progress Report

Reminders:

• Read your LC book.
• If you haven't gotten your LAC Library card bring it tomorrow for a P grade.
• Read for book reading competition (See Ortega if you have finished any books since Monday).
• Push-Up competition is Tuesday after school, our reps are Rene and Priscilla.
• LC Discussion next class

Today we started the day with SSR and then carried on to peer review Logan's workshop piece and finally carried the day on with working on our own writing workshop pieces.

Monday, October 1st

Today's Plan:

• SSR
• Exposition QW
• Membership Card/Warm Up
• LC Discussion
• Share Out
• Questions/Announcements

 Reminders:

• LAC Library Cards where checked today, nest class are still valid for an AE everyday after is a grade deduction.
• Book Reading competition began today, read as many books as a house to win the point.

Today a quick write was done with the following question: 
What about the exposition of your text do you find most interesting? Why? What is still confusing you? How might this be rectified?
We then had a literature discussion with out groups and where set free.