Book Reviews Before Break (Sounds like a Magic Treehouse Title)

Goal: Writing your first formal book review..

Agenda: 
Read
Reading Progress Update
Book Review Structure
Starting a book review

1. Complete your READING PROGRESS UPDATE.

2. Learn about the structure of a book review. 

• This week you met with Ms. Love and learned about book review structure. 

• If you need to review that you can click HERE to get a copy of what you worked on with her. 
• She will be giving back your paper copy in class too. 

Click the picture to see it larger. 

3. Write your own book review.

• I shared a new document with you in Google Drive called Book Reviews 19-20.
• You will use this doc to write your review today and to write other book reviews in the future. 

Reminders

• Have a great book to read during Thanksgiving break. 
• You can return your group novel to the library now, or add it to the basket in the back of the room and I will have a student take them down to the library.

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What can I work on? 
By popular request, I'm posting a list of things you can catch up on or check on during break. This six week grading period ends today, though, so these things won't impact your current grade. They will help your more important semester grade.

1. READ - Reading is the best thing you can do for yourself. You should be reading book #5 or more. 

2. BOOK REVIEW - Finish your review of book #4 if you didn't already finish it in class. Hint, this should be on the "book review" doc that I shared with you on Friday. We are grading reviews of book #4 after Thanksgiving break. 

3. NOVEL PROJECT: A few of you still need to turn in your novel project. This post from our submission day should have all the links you need to help you with that. 

Request a Regrade: 
If you never revised your memoir or your visual memoir you can still work on either or both of those and then request a regrade on the tab above.

Most of you just need to read, relax and enjoy your break time with family and friends. If you really must worry about your English grade, try not to do that for more than a few hours. You need the time off. I need the time off too, so if you email me a question I probably won't get back to you until school starts again. Don't panic.