Reading for evidence in Possibility of Evil

Such lovely roses. 

Goal: Read the beginning of The possibility of Evil while gathering evidence to support your thinking. Complete the reading organizer as you go.

Agenda: 
Read
Read Possibility of Evil

Possibility of Evil:

1. Open your Google Drive and Check "Shared with me" or "incoming" for a new document called "Reading Organizer." 
2. Click the link at the top of the reading organizer to access the PDF of the reading. 
3. Follow the directions on the reading organizer to stop and answer the questions as you go. Be sure to include the quotations from the story (evidence) that supports your thinking. 
4. We will take more than one day to read this, but try to get through at least half today. 

Reminders:

Catch up in your English Journal. You should have three entries. 

Read, you should be half way through a book at least. 

Probable Passage

Goal: Review and sort words from an upcoming reading to make predictions about the text.

Agenda:
Read
Probable Passage Activity

Probable Passage: 
1. With your partner get this Probable Passage document. (One of you make the copy and share it with your partner.)
2. Sort the words into the plot profile categories and then use those words to write a prediction for the story we will read on Monday.
3. Paste your prediction (gist statement) into your English Journal.

Reminders: Read, really read a lot. You need to read and review two books of your choice this grading period. Less than 5 weeks left. If you don't like your book ask for help picking a better one.
-Next book reviews due March 16th.

District Literacy Interim Assessment #2

Goal: Begin the district Interim Literacy Assessment #2.

Student Directions: 

1. Go to: https://sdusd.illuminatehc.com 
2. Login with your district username and password, the same one you use to login to the netbooks. 
3. You should see Pending Assessments on the right.
4. Choose Literacy Interim Assessment 2 -Grade 9. 
5. Read the directions carefully as you work through the assessment. 
6. Read your book when you finish.
7. We will have more time for this on Friday. 

Homework: 

• Read your independent reading book. (If you don't want to read it then you have the wrong book. Let me help you get a better one.) 
• Catch up on anything you haven't finished in your English Journal. 

Even more poetry

CC Photo by: Lew (tomswift) Holzman

Goals: Using what we learned about SIFT to write about a poem, including figurative language and theme.

Agenda:
1. Read
2. Share out about the poem you read yesterday. Hint: pull up the SIFT doc that your group worked on.

Next:
3. With your partner visit http://www.poetryfoundation.org and find a poem that interests you.
4. Write an entry in your English Journal. Use the bullets below to help you.

• Describe the poem you found and why you like it. 
• Explain how using SIFT takes you deeper into what the poem means. Use a line from the poem with your explanation. (cite evidence)
• Compare the poem you found to the one you read with your group yesterday. 

Reminders: 

Make up any work you have missed so far this week. 

Read. You need to read two books by March 16. That's sooner than you think. 

Are you using your calendar to keep track of things you need to do? 

SIFTing Poems

Goal: Further practice SIFTing poems. 

Agenda: 
Read
SIFTing a poem with your group.

SIFTing a poem:

• Today you will be getting more practice SIFTing poems with a small group. 
• Use this document to organize your thinking about the poem. (Don't share this with me.)
• Complete the organizer ALL the way through writing the paragraph at the bottom.
• PASTE that paragraph into your English Journal
• Tomorrow you will present this poem to a different group. Be prepared to explain your analysis. 

Poems for Groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6


Absent? Choose a poem to SIFT on your own. Be sure to paste that paragraph about the poem into your English Journal when you are done.