Good Afternoon,

*Silent Reading

*Literature Circle Discussion:   Make sure your role sheets are ready to go!

*Reflection

Good Afternoon!

I hope you all had a restful and relaxing winter break!

*How was our winter break?!

*Where are we at with our novels?  We only have two more weeks till the end of the semester –hard to believe!

*Silent Reading

*We will be doing a Literature Circle Discussion on Tuesday.  You will have time to meet with your group to make sure you are all on the same page for what pages you will do for this discussion as well as what role you are responsible for completing.

*You will have time to prepare your role sheet.

https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/assessment/literacy-assessment/grade-10-literacy-assessment

Good Afternoon,

*Silent Reading

*We will have our Literature Circle Discussion.  Hopefully you are all prepared!

Post a reflection:

Tag the reflection with the following

NelsonDiscussion2Fall2019-10

*If time, we will continue to watch “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Good Afternoon,

*Silent Reading (20-25 min)

*Literature Circle Discussion:  We will be doing our first Literature Circle Discussion…I hope you are all ready to discuss!  Please post your role sheet with the following tag:

NelsonLitCircle10#1

*When your group has completed your discussion, you are to complete the following reflection sheet.  This should be posted with the following tag:

NelsonLitCircle10Reflection1

*If there is time after your discussion and reflection sheet, you can work on your Friday Writes and ensure they are ready to go

Good Afternoon,

*Silent Reading

*No Red Ink:  Body Paragraphs and embedding evidence continued.

*Novel share out:  let’s hear about what is going on in our novels so far.

*Literature Circles on Thursday:  Are your roles ready?

*Reminder that your Friday Writes are due on Friday December 13th.

Good Afternoon,

*Silent Reading

*Literature Circle Role Preparation:  how are we making out?

*Do we need time for Friday Writes?

Good Afternoon,

Congrats to Amanda, Olivia, Erik and Maddox!  You all did a wonderful job representing our class!!

*silent reading

*Literature Circle Discussion:  Roles

*We will go over the roles; these are to be rotated between your group members.

Will do our first Literature Discussion on Thursday December 12th.  You will have time today to figure out your group’s reading schedule along with working on your role for this discussion.

Good Afternoon,

*We will be at the Spoken Word Finals in the cafeteria.  You will come to class for attendance and then go to the cafeteria together.  At the end of the spoken word festival, you are to stay behind to help stack chairs and clean up…thank you!!!

Good Afternoon,

*No Red Ink:  Embedding Evidence

*Time to research and decide your novel!  I will also go over the various roles you will have to do over the course of our Literature circles.

*Once you have chosen a novel, you will meet with group members to establish a reading schedule….

*If time, we will work on One Act Plays.

Good Morning,

*Friday Writes:  Composition and Portfolio

*Time to get Compositions in order

*Time for Spoken Words:

Reminder…spoken words are on Monday December 2nd.  Those who want a chance to compete in the grade finals have to go on Monday.  We will try to get through as many students as possible…any remaining will go on Tuesday December 3rd.