Overview from 2/23 and Assignment due 3/2

Today I had the students read "Thank You, Ma'm" by Langston Hughes. I gave them each a graphic organizer for the three signposts we have learned so far. They had to find each signpost in the story and respond to each while addressing the anchor questions and literary elements each signpost contributes to.

FOR NEXT SATURDAY:

• Students need to have started their new (2nd) book.
• Students should start a cover page for the 2nd book
• Title
• Author
• Genre
• Summary (only 5-7 sentences...wait until you have finished the book to write this)
• Rating for the book with 2 reasons for your rating (wait until you finish the book to rate)
• PICTURE for book is encouraged...can be drawn or printed. Creativity is not graded.
• On the page following the started cover page, students should do a free entry on what they have read so far in the book. They can pick topics from the free journal entry page. If they are seeing signposts already, they can make those part of the entry. FREE ENTRIES SHOULD BE 3 DEVELOPED PARAGRAPHS AT A MINIMUM. Email me if you have any questions, (fameacademy.literarcy@famefund.org)
• Click this link and fill out the survey

Here is a link to a video that explains the layout of the journal. You can ignore some of the comments about how many books you will be reading as this video is from last year and we have made some changes to those requirements. The journal layout, however is the same.