Reminder:  All of my classes will take the Scholastic Reading Inventory on Monday, August 26, 2019 to get a current assessment of your child’s Lexile reading level.

Today’s Summary

Period 8-1:

• Read Sections 4 and 5 together of “Raymond’s Run”
• Complete your individual reading reflections
• Individual, Partner, or Triangle Group Reading and finishing reflections for “Raymond’s Run”
• If you finish early, read your library book or see me to get moved into our class section for Membean Vocabulary.

Period 8-4:

• Complete Section 3 of your graphic organizer. Keep this in your binder for tomorrow along with the new pages I added to your graphic organizer “packet” today.
• Complete the Quickwrite.
• Return your copy of the story.
• Get a Chromebook.
• Get a copy of the neon “Best of Quickwrites” checklist.  Read all the instructions at the top of the page!  (Items 1-4)
• Go to Canvas and go to Assignments
• Complete your “Best of Quickwrites” assignment.  Be sure to read all instructions for writing and submitting.
• Turn in your bundled Quickwrites with the neon sheet stapled to the top.
• If you finish early, see me to get changed over to our class for Membean.

Period 8-5

• Get a copy of the neon “Best of Quickwrites” checklist.  Read all the instructions at the top of the page!  (Items 1-4)
• Go to Canvas and go to Assignments
• Complete your “Best of Quickwrites” assignment.  Be sure to read all instructions for writing and submitting.
• Turn in your bundled Quickwrites with the neon sheet stapled to the top.
• Finish your work from Wednesday on Sections 1 and 2 of the graphic organizer for “Raymond’s Run” if you did not complete it yesterday in class.
• Read Section 3 of “Raymond’s Run”Complete Section 3 of your graphic organizer. Keep this in your binder for tomorrow along with the new pages I added to your graphic organizer “packet” today.
• Complete the Quickwrite.
• Return your copy of the story.
• If you finish early, you may read your library book or see Ms. Hamilton to do Membean.

Period 8-6

• Complete the Quickwrite.
• Complete Sections 1, 2, and 3 of your graphic organizer if you did not do so yesterday.
• Keep this (your graphic organizer) in your binder for tomorrow.
• Return your copy of the story.
• Get a Chromebook.
• Get a copy of the neon “Best of Quickwrites” checklist. READ STEPS 1-4 at the top.
• Go to Canvas.
• Go to Assignments.
• Complete your “Best of Quickwrites” assignment. Read ALL the instructions in the assignment. SUBMIT your work in Canvas.
• Turn in your bundled Quickwrites.
• See me to get changed over to our class for Membean.

Reminder:  All of my classes will take the Scholastic Reading Inventory on Monday, August 26, 2019 to get a current assessment of your child’s Lexile reading level.

What We Did and Learned in Class Today:

Short Story Mentor Text PDF of “Raymond’s Run”:  (does not include my sectioned/numbered “chunks” that we are using to reference specific parts of the story, but this is the version we are using)

Audio File of the Story “Raymond’s Run”

Please see the slideshow below for a look at what we did.  I am also including a summary by class below.

• 1st Period:
  • “Ticket in the Door” reflections on our pre-reading station work from Monday and Tuesday
  • Library book reading time
  • Read Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the short story “Raymond’s Run” together
  • Complete active reading graphic organizer for Sections 1, 2, and 3
  • Complete today’s Quickwrite–a response to the story “Raymond’s Run”
  • We should complete the story tomorrow in class.
• 4th Period:
  • 1st 10 Minutes:  complete prep work for Table Talk groups based on our six pre-reading story stations we worked on Monday and Tuesday
  • Table Talk groups share out to whole class
  • Copy notes on HOTS question stems
  • Read Sections 1, 2, and 3 together of the short story “Raymond’s Run”
  • Complete Sections 1 and 2 of our reading graphic organizer; begin section 3.  We will finish Section 3 as our warm-up tomorrow.
• 5th Period:
  • Complete prep work for Table Talk groups based on our six pre-reading story stations we worked on Monday and Tuesday
  • Table Talk groups share out to whole class
  • Copy notes on HOTS question stems
  • Read Sections 1 and 2  together of the short story “Raymond’s Run”
  • Complete Sections 1 and 2 of our reading graphic organizer–turn in before you leave class today.
• 6th Period
  • Complete prep work for Table Talk groups based on our six pre-reading story stations we worked on Monday and Tuesday
  • Table Talk groups share out to whole class
  • Copy notes on HOTS question stems
  • Read Sections 1, 2, and 3 together of the short story “Raymond’s Run”
  • Work on Sections 1, 2, 3; turn in before you leave even if not finished.

Today we finished Pre-Reading station work for our first short story we’ll read this week, “Raymond’s Run.”

1st Period:  Independent reading based Quickwrite + completion of station work and table talk.

4th Period:  Completion of independent station work and started table talk work; we will finish table talk tomorrow.  Students also completed a Quickwrite.

5th Period: Quickwrite + Completion of independent station work; students voted on top choices to help lead station table talk tomorrow.

6th Period:  Quickwrite + Completion of independent station work; students voted on top choices to help lead station table talk tomorrow.

Coming Up Monday, August 26, 2019:  First SRI Lexile reading assessment