Asking Good Questions: August 29, 2018

Focus: How can we use good questions to unlock tricky texts?

Shortened class today

Please turn in your blue three-columned notes.

1.Warming up up the "Question-Only" game (courtesy of Whose Line Is It Anyway?)

2. Read the first two pages of "The Yellow Wallpaper" together

3. Making the text explode with questions in small groups; considering three levels of questioning, and determining which kinds you asked

HW:
1. FOR THURSDAY: Read the first half of The Yellow Wallpaper"; fill in at least one side of your reading journal with Level 1 and 2 questions.

2. For FRIDAY:

• IXL: Achieve a score of at least 85 on any two lessons from "Sentences, Fragments, and Run-Ons." The recommended level for English 10 is Level J, but move up or move down based on your skills.

• Independent reading PROPOSAL, SIGNATURES, AND BOOK due this Friday.