Building Our Reading Muscles, Day 4: September 21, 2018

Focus: How can we build our reading skills?

NEW SEATS AND A NEW UNIT TODAY!

1. Warming up with a celebration of some fantastic peer editing

2. Distributing The Kite Runner books and bookmarks; slow reading the first chapter together with three levels of questioning:

Level 1: What is a Hazara?

Level 2: What does Hassan's physical's description represent about his social status?

Level 3: Why do societies always need a scapegoat?

3. Reading our independent reading books and/or Chapter 2 of The Kite Runner; use sticky notes or three-columned notes (handwritten or typed) to annotate as you read. Remember your reading strategies.


HW:
1. Read Chapter 2; use sticky notes or three-columned notes (handwritten or typed) to annotate as you read. Remember your reading strategies (especially your three levels of questioning).

2. For TUESDAY: 

• Revise, polish, and PRINT your summary-response. 

• Turn in by 4:00 pm. You will not be allowed to leave class to print, so please take care of this on your own. 

• Use the Night-Before checklist to make sure your essay is in final-draft shape!