Shortened class today due to fire drill.

Students proofread 2 sentences of DOL 9-4 (B).

(Short) choice time reading/writing.

Corrected and rewrote DOL.

Groups continued work charting examples on themes, with three examples and three quotes, for Of Mice and Men.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Monday, February 8

Silent reading.

Collected reading logs.

Finished watching the movie version of Of Mice and Men.

Discussed differences between novel and movie, and some of the reasons for the director's changes.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Friday, February 5

Ms. Bishop absent; Ms. Leis subbed today.

Of Mice and Men movie.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Thursday, February 4

Collected Dialect worksheets from last week.

Finished Chapter 6, Of Mice and Men.

Discussed the end of the novel.

Divided the chapters of the book, using sticky notes as bookmarks.

Began work on the Theme handout, working as a whole class to identify examples and quotes with page numbers to illustrate them for the first of four important themes in the novel.

Resumed watching the movie version of Of Mice and Men.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Wednesday, February 3

Finished Chapter 5, Of Mice and Men.

Presented last Chapter 4 Vocabulary words.

Continued reading Chapter 6 Of Mice and Men.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Tuesday, February 2

New book talk/ Silent reading.

Reminder to hand in yesterday's reading logs!

Reviewed Reading Guide to Chapters 3--4, Of Mice and Men.

Checked in re: Vocabulary for Chapter 4.

Read in Chapter 5, Of Mice and Men.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.

Wednesday, January 27

Groups met to assign lit analysis tasks for Chapters 4 and 5 of Of Mice and Men, and to complete the Reading Guide to Chapters 3--4.

Finished reading Chapter 4 in Of Mice and Men.

Individuals completed assigned Chapter 4 tasks.

DUE DATES

Mondays: Weekly reading logs due.

Fridays: Weekly writing due.