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= **Week Eight: Monday, March 28- Friday, April 1 ** =

Portfolio Self Assessments due today.  Reading time & Sharing. Begin setting up presentation schedules for final projects: April 11-15. Tuesday: Critical Literacy Global Novel assignment due today. Mini lesson: Reading makes you a better writer! Reading wisdom: "We don't always choose the books we read... sometimes they choose us." -Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Cooking up Good Writing!  What's on the list for Good Writing? Hand-out: The Ingredients for GOOD WRITING. Getting focus for our next essay assignment due April 5th! This essay (Personal response or Connections/ Global Novel) will be marked on the six traits: ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Remember: Read like a Reader. Read like a Writer. Wednesday: Begin work on personal/ connection essay. Writing strategy: "Do you have a good idea?" worksheet for brainstorming. What are your feelings, knowledge, details, interest and values that connect to the assignment? Reading and sharing time. Thursday: Students were assembled in groups with people who had read similiar books (same title, setting or theme.) Students shared brilliant questions and then used the attached list of suggested question to talk for half an hour. A great discussion. Discussion records were submitted by each group for evaluation. Finished with reading time.   Next assignment due: Personal or Connections Essay (Tuesday, April 5).

Friday: Group Sharing #2. Move in to groups with people who have not read th same book as you. Share brilliant questions, read passages,

generally share what you like/ dislike about your book.

