English 8 students began looking at the basic skills that will inform everything we read this year: effective readers’ skills. We started with the AOW, their first:

We finished with a Think Aloud for “Thank You, Ma’am,” a story by Langston Hughes. It allows students to see all the skills I implement as I read a text.

English I Honors also began working on their first true Article of the Week, looking at how to determine and annotate context clues:

They determined the meaning of “vied” without using any resources other than their own cognitive processes.

Afterward, we looked at the poem “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee as we began working to differentiate between summarizing and analyzing.

We will finish it up tomorrow.

Homework

• English 8: work on the article of the week as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete today’s work;
  • work on the article of the week as necessary.