First and seventh period used their reading journals as a method of keeping track of what they’ve read. Students have complained about not remembering what they read, so I decided to practice summarizing and make it a required element of the novel we’re reading, The Glory Field.

Second period had a quiz  and then work on The Giver, looking at things from Jonas’s point of view.

Fourth period worked on compound sentences.

Homework

• First and seventh periods: by Monday’s class, you’ll need to have The Glory Field completed through page 154. Additionally, you’ll need to have three or four one-sentence summaries in your reader’s journal
• Second period: read through chapter 15.
• Fourth period: read to chapter 38. You can skip chapter 37, but skim it if you’re interested in seeing how Dickens dealt with writer’s block under the pressure of a weekly installment deadline.