Thursday,+September+8,+2016

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Essential Question
What is your relationship with reading?

Today's Learning Objective:
Students will practice active reading skills, noting reactions, connections, and author style through annotations. RL.9.1, RL.9.2

Students will react to text and exhibit critical thinking through journal responses. Students will also identify the type of thinking used in responses, encouraging metacognition and a broader range of responses.

RL.9.1, RL.9.10

Today's Anchor Text
Read Sherman Alexie's essay, "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me." Make sure to read actively! Annotate!

Inking Your Thinking in a Journal
What is a r eading journa l?

Discussion and Modeling
What is a journal?

What are the Levels of Thinking?

Look at samples.

Teacher Model (from Alexie's text)

Practice
With your shoulder partner, do a journal entry together from the essay. Make sure to identify the LOT.

Join the rest of your table group and examine your journal entries.

Choose one of your journal entries to share with the class.

Sharing and Discussion
Share journal entries with the class. Discuss LOTs, formatting, and depth.

Independent Practice/Homework
Do a journal entry of your own from this text. Make sure to correctly identify the LOT.