Homework due Wednesday, October 21

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.

Homework due Wednesday, October 21: Please bring in your visual metaphor reflections for Language Arts class on Wednesday.

In language arts today the students worked on using visual journaling for reflecting on literature. The book we examined today was, Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California’s Yosemite Valley, by Robert Sans Souci. Groups of two and three students were given laminated photocopies of a page, which they read and then picked out a work, phrase and sentence that they thought was crucial to, or summative of the page. Each student then shared their ideas with their other group members, explaining why they had chosen the particular word, phrase and sentence.

Each student will then draw an impression of what they read using colored pencils, colored markers, and crayons to create visual metaphors. This will help them to think beyond the obvious. The next step of the assignment will eventually be to write a short explanation of the ideas in their sketch.