Reading Journals for 3rd Nine Weeks Reflect the Dates:

Reading Journals for 3rd Nine Weeks Reflect the Dates:

Jan. 25 -26
Jan. 30-Feb. 2
Feb. 6 – Feb. 9
Feb. 13-16
March 5 - March 8
March 12 – March 15
March 26 – March 29
April 2 – April 4

Total Points 40/40:
*If there are more than four entries missing, the score becomes 20/40.
*If there are more than 1 week worth of entries missing, grade will reflect a 0/40.
*Students who met the No Journal entries requirement DO NOT HAVE to complete journal entries for March 26 - April 4.

Expectations…
Monday: Inference
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Then, discuss the author’s use of key words, figurative language, and chain of events to show what and how the inferences were made.

Tuesday: Tone
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Identify and discuss the strategies the author uses to create the tone.

Wednesday: Vocabulary and Cause and Effect Relationships of Events
1) Provide a summary of the text and then discuss how the unfamiliar vocabulary word (s) was used in the context.
2) Try to figure out its meaning and then verify by looking the word up. Share your results in the summary.
3) Discuss the Cause and Effect relations – both literal and implied.

Thursday: Character Analysis
1) Write a summary of what you read.
2) Discuss what you think of the main/minor character(s) in the text.
3) Identify at least two adjectives to accurately describe the character as portrayed in the reading.

NOTEL For Informational Text for Thursday is Main Idea or choose Inference, Tone, Vocabulary and Cause and Effect.