We started the day with band, chorus, or study hall. I have been working to get the reading benchmarks going so some students worked on those. Others did some small group math activities. It was a productive time.
In reading for both classes, I went over the "Read and Log 2 hours" requirement. Students need to read 2 hours each week starting today. This is time that is outside of school. The time read in school does not count. In order to become better at something, we must practice. In order to become better readers, we need to read A LOT! Therefore, students will be reading a lot this year both inside and outside of school. I showed them what I expect on the reading logs. Tomorrow, I will show them the rubric being used to score this assignment. These logs are due on Tuesdays, starting September 14.
On the back of the reading logs is the Vocabulary Find assignment. Students are to find 3 unknown vocabulary words each week in context. They need to record the word, the sentence it is in, the part of speech it is in that sentence and its definition in words they can understand. The rules for vocab are on the bottom of this sheet. Please let me know if you have any questions. You can download a copy of the reading log as well as the vocabulary find from my Homework Now site.
In writing, we brainstormed some positive and negative events of our lives. Students then starred 5 positive and 5 negative events that they would like to graph. They rated these events for how positive and how negative they are. The homework for tomorrow is to find out what dates these events occurred. We will then turn them into our Graphs of Life.
In science, we took some learning style questionnaires and calculated the results. We learned, according to these tests, if we are visual learners, auditory learners or kinesthetic learners.
