Room 231
September 17th-21st, 2012
Updates and News!
Reading Response Journals are slowly but surely becoming an issue, unfortunately. I wanted to use this as a way to keep up with the progress my students were making as readers and to talk with them about what they were reading. However, a VAST majority of students are simply not bothering to turn them in OR they are throwing them together during my class in between in class assignments. So, due to that, they badly need to be restructured, because I don't want this to just be a chore for the students; I want it to be something meaningful and productive. This is in process and I will let you know as soon as I figure out what would be best. There will still be Reading Response Journal 3 due this Friday and any changes implemented will be effective for Reading Response Journal 4.
This week, your students will be taking the EXPLORE test on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please make sure they get plenty of rest and have a good breakfast! Here is a link to parents' Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the EXPLORE test: http://www.act.org/path/parent/tests/explore.html
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Utopia
by Thomas More
Same Sun Here
by Silas House & Neela Vaswani
What We're Reading This Week...
In A Perfect World...
We will also be reading an excerpt from Thomas More's Utopia and we will be continuing our read aloud of Kentucky author Silas House's Same Sun Here.
Ways to Connect
Email: sasha.reinhardt@clark.kyschools.us
Website: clarkmiddleroom231.blogspot.com
Location: 1645 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Winchester, KY 40391
Phone: 859-744-0427
Facebook: facebook.com/clarkmiddleroom231
Twitter: @CMSRoom231