Discussing the Opening Chapters: September 25, 2018

Focus: What are we learning about the characters and their complex relationships?

Please turn in your printed essays. You may print during lunch or after school and leave it on my desk in the Language Arts office by 4:00.

1. Warming up by discussing Chapters 2 and 3 with your NEW membership grid groups (15 min)

• Topic #1: Each member shares a Level 2 (discussion) question you have from Chapter 2 or 3; all members discuss possible answers to each question.

• Ex: Why is important that both Amir and Hassan have lost their mothers? How does this loss affect each of them?

• Topic #2: Each member shares a significant passage (quotation) from Chapter 2 or 3; all members discuss the passage and its possible significance.

• Topic #3: Each member makes a text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connection to understand the text on a deeper level. Feel free also to connect to the documentary we watched.

2. Reading and annotating Chapters 4, 5, and 6 for tomorrow; click HERE if you need the online version of the reading journal

3. If you finish the reading and annotating early, you are welcome to start on your IXL for the week (proficiency in any two lessons in nouns)

HW:
1. For TOMORROW: Finish reading and annotating Chapters 4, 5, and 6. Brace yourself for Chapter 7.

2. For FRIDAY: Complete any two IXL lessons on NOUNS (Level J suggested).

3. Remember that this Friday marks the end of the first 6 weeks; all make-up work, revisions, grade corrections, and re-taken quizzes are due this Friday.