Learning Target: By the end of the day you should be able to do the following on GOODREADS.

1. Register
2. Add books
3. Classify books as “to read” “currently reading” or “read”
4. Understand how to post progress reports to Goodreads.

WARMUP:  SEVEN MINUTES OF VOCABULARY WORK!

WORK DAY:  C.E. will conference individually with writers.

REMINDERS:  Starting Independent Reading Unit (memoir) next week.  HAVE CHROME BOOK EVERY DAY TO DO LOGS THROUGH GOOD READS!!

MOSTLY WRITING DAYS (poetry portfolios).

Looked at two new poems and discussed poetic techniques.

• WEDNESDAY:  When I heard the learn’d astronomer by Walt Whitman
• THURSDAY: 13 ways of looking at a blackbird by Wallace Stevens

WORK DAY:

• Two more poems (draft form) to Classroom by end of hour.
• Tomorrow will be an editing/revising day.
• Final Two poems due to classroom (Draft Form) by Friday (I know, I originally said Thursday but we had a gap in our schedule.

FINAL POETRY PROJECT DUE:  Friday, Oct 14  (look for specific details in classroom by Thursday)

OTHER REMINDERS:  Remember, Independent reading unit coming up starting next week.  You will need to get a book–memoir/autobiography/biography.  Book talk in library Next Tuesday.

Learning Targets

1. You will be able to identify and mark the accented syllables in each of the vocabulary words for this week.
2. You will be able to recite the schedule for this vocabulary unit.
   1. MONDAY: 10/10 Visual Check of worksheets
   2. WEDNESDAY 10/12  Practice Quiz
   3. FRIDAY 10/14 For Real Quiz

In class:

1. Good things
2. Went over Vocab List as full class
3.  Writing time

REMEMBER:

1. Two more poems due to docs by Tuesday* (draft form)
2. Two more due by Thursday* (draft form)

*3rd Hour will be due WED/FRI instead.