Have a great vacation... but not from reading!

Enjoy the break for family, fun, and making connections, but remember to read! December reading logs will be collected the first day back. If another copy is needed, it can be printed from here. Just click the image to enlarge. Remember, front and back must be completed for full credit.

Making Connections Homework

Due Dates:

1st Period: 12/16, 3rd Period: 12/16 6th Period: 12/11, 7th Period: 12/11

Vocabulary Cartoons to Help You Study!

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Benevolent-Characterized by or expressing good will or kindly feelings; charitable(giving); desiring to help others

Malevolent - Wishing harm or evil to others; showing ill-will

Astute - smart, perceptive, clever, shrewd

Obtuse - not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect, not sensitive or observant, not sharp, block-headed, slow in comprehension

Elated- very happy or proud, jubilant, in high spirits

Melancholy - a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged (depressed)

Irate - angry, enraged, furious

Pugnacious - inclined to quarrel or fight, combative, quarrelsome

Amiable - having or showing pleasant good-natured personal qualities; friendly; sociable; agreeable; willing to accept the wishes, decisions, or suggestions of others

Craven - cowardly, timid, fearful

Making Connections

We are working on active reading strategies. One important role of the reader is the connector. We discussed the three kinds of connections that readers make: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world.

Why make connections?

It helps us:
•understand how characters feel and the motivation behind their actions.
• have a clearer picture in our head as we read thus making
us more engaged.
• keep us from becoming bored while reading
• set a purpose for reading and keeps us focused
• see how other readers connected to the reading
• become actively involved
• remember what we have read and ask questions about the text
•have a stronger understanding of the writer’s message

We are practicing these connections with selections from the literature book along with the self-selected novels that students are logging and reading.

Cause and Effect

In class Thursday and Friday we are discussing 4 different cause and effect patterns.
Then we applied this strategy to a story in our literature book.

This page is a short cause and effect homework assignment, due next class meeting.

Binder Check

We spent time in class filing papers and getting organized. This table of contents is posted in the classroom. Any questions? This is where the graded work should be located. Keeping organized is a priority. A binder check may happen in class...taken for a quiz grade. Be Prepared!