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= **Week Six: Monday, March 14- Friday, March 18 ** =

Monday: Have a Global Novel ready for Reader's Workshop/ Global Novel Unit beginning today. We will be using a Reader's Workshop approach to our class periods during this unit. This will give you more dedicated deep-reading time (30 minutes per class). Today we beagn with a brief discusssion on choosing books and making predictions. After this, students were given time to work on their "Novel Choice" assignment which is due on Wednesday. We ended with 30 minutes of reading time. Tuesday: Mini Lesson: Reading Reasons: Reading is Rewarding-- First Lines. (handout/ discussion). Reading time. Sharing. Basic sharing: What are you reading? Is it any good/ do you like it so far? What makes it good?/ Why do you like it? Can you read us some of it? Something good? "Novel Choice" assignment due tomorrow. Wednesday: Novel Choice assignments due. Sharing strategy: Supporting an opinion (what-why-how); Reading wisdom; "Tis the good reader that makes the book good." Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reading time. Sharing. Received outline of all up-coming assignments & due dates for the unit.  Thursday: Reading builds a mature vocabulary. Jabberwocky exercise. Reading time. Sharing. Friday: Building vocabulary: gloaming, gloriole, glossitis, gloxinia. Using context clues and predictions. Notes: how to assess and improve your comprehension. Reading time. Sharing. Homework: Look at the due dates for projects, assess wheer you are in your book, and where you need to be to get things done. Assign yourself some extra reading to get ahead. Next week will be the last week for 30 minute reading periods.