Welcome back!
Today we:
- Cleaned, weeded, and organized our course notebooks. I encourage students to have an individual binder for this class instead of one huge binder with multiple sections for every course. If you can purchase inexpensive notebook dividers for your child this semester like these, it will help him/her more easily organize the sections of his/her notebook. I provided students folders to store their “leftover” work; this is work we will not need again until April, but it is also work that we do not want to throw away.
- We set reading goals for the 3rd quarter. Students received a “Lexile” strip showing their December Lexile score and their simple, moderate, and demanding reading bands. We are focused on reading books in our moderate and demanding bands this semester.
- 1st period worked on new reading goals bookmark for their current book to plan how many pages they need to read to finish their books by a certain date. Periods 4, 5, and 6 will complete this task on Tuesday.
Coming Up:
- Tuesday, 1/7/2020: Bookmark goals (Period 4, 5, 6 only); Membean work; independent/choice reading time.
- Wednesday, 1/8/2020: Classroom spelling bee; vocabulary work.
- Thursday, 1/9/2020: Issue literary nonfiction/memoir book club books; assign book clubs; talk about book club requirements.
- Friday, 1/10/2020: “Reading” workouts with our book club books
Weekly Homework January 6–March 11, 2020
- 15 minutes of Membean once a week at home or outside of school time
- Read your library book/choice book 15 minutes each night.
Hamilton 8th Language Arts 