Today we enjoyed a special presentation from our guidance counselors about services available to 8th graders and then planning ahead for high school. Students completed or received slotted notes for the presentation. You can view the presentation here.
Category: September 2019
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Today we did a quick “check up” on where students are with their “Thank You Ma’m” digital playlist. We then did a guided mini-lesson on annotation strategies to reinforce what is taught through the two tutorial videos in the playlist.
- We reviewed the purple and teal annotation strategies students have in their binder.
- We looked at a sample annotated text.
- We reviewed how to complete the annotations in CommonLit as well as paper.
- We read a paired text to “Thank You Ma’m”, a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness.” We also got to hear the author tell us about the inspiration for the poem.
- We completed two annotations for the poem.
- Students picked their best annotation and shared through “Everyone Up!”, a review game in which everyone stands until he/she share his her work. This work counted as a performance assessment today.
Monday, September 23, 2019
Today we continued working on our “Thank You Ma’m” Playlist (see below). At this point, students should be reading the story and working on their annotations using the strategies in the tutorial videos. All students should be finished with the story tomorrow and working on the story brochure.
Hamilton 8th Language Arts 