August 30

I demonstrated how to do a book talk today by introducing students to The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner. Students will share their own titles beginning next week!

Each week, we will read, annotate, and respond to news article in our writer's notebooks. Students learned about this today and practiced with our first article: "Sacrificing sleep? Here's what it will do to your health."

With the remaining class time, students worked on the summer reading reflection (on Classroom, due Friday) or their 3-2-1 assignment (on Classroom, due Thursday).

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