Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Well, we got through a busy day of school today, but take heart; one more day of school before the weekend! :)

Here was today's game plan:

1. Membership Grid:  (What worked/didn't)
2. Norm Brainstorm
3. LC Contract
4. LC Discussion 1

As I said, today was a busy day.  We saw all four teachers because of EQ meetings during 4th block.  With a spit schedule, unfortunately we didn't have enough time for SSR, so we went straight to work.

A# 56 is Membership Grid, which we did last time for literature circles.  This is a grid which we will fill out every time we have a literature circle discussion.  Mrs. Ortega will give us a question/topic to talk about, and we each will write down our group's answers.  Today, we discussed what worked and didn't work in our last literature circles.

We only had about 40 minutes with Mrs. Ortega today, so we skipped Norm Brainstorm.

A# 57 is LC Contract.  As homework, we are to come back with ideas for a contract to hold our the literature circle accountable.

We ended the day by talking for 15 minutes about what we read in our books.

A# 58 is LC Disc Prep 2.  The next reading assignment is Monday, January 14th.  Keep up with your reading and write down 5-7 quotes or striking words with page numbers for homework.


It was nice being your scribe for the week!  Have a great weekend!

-Lauren DeVaughn