Here We Go! Welcome Back!
Welcome Back – I hope that your break was enjoyable and that you had some fun in the beautiful weather. I know that it is sometimes hard to have another day at home, but we’ve got this and I believe in you! Moving forward, things will look a little different, but I truly think it will be fun. Please read on to see where to begin and then, GO!!
On Monday morning, April 13th, you MUST choose a novel. I sent out three possibilities just before break, so if you need to check them out, then do it. When you are ready, you will select your novel by joining a NEW GOOGLE CLASSROOM group. This is the best way to keep everybody up to date on the novel you chose to read and hopefully no one will get confused. Until we are finished with the novels, the only thing you will submit on the old GC will be the April 16th Independent Reading Project (remember you only need to do the 25%). Otherwise, ALL of your work will be on your NEW group GC for your novel.
PLEASE NOTE: All three novels are doing the same literary topic, journal, and quiz each week, just within a different novel.
Ok, so join the GC of your chosen novel only on Monday the 13th. Then complete the following for the week:
Monday –
- Watch the video on the topic of setting for this week – Setting
- Listen/read chapter one in “Dead End” and “Mind” and “Warm-Up” in Crossover
Tuesday –
- Listen/read chapters 2-3 in “Dead End” and “Mind”
- Listen/read pages 20-40 in the “First Quarter” of Crossover
Wednesday –
- Listen/read chapter 4 in “Dead End”
- Listen/read chapter 4-5 in “Mind”
- Listen/read pages 41-61in the “First Quarter” of Crossover
Thursday – Sunday –
- Catch up on reading if you missed it
- Complete the setting lesson
- Write the journal posted in GC
- Complete the short Multiple Choice quiz on reading
It sounds and reads a little crazy for the moment, but in the big picture, you will see that you get to pace yourself from Monday to Sunday each week.
Then, we will be meeting each Thursday on Google Hangouts. Zoom is having some privacy issues, so we will attempt Google Hangouts/Meet, so please download the app and have your parent send permission before Thursday, April 16th. We will meet each week as follows:
- Dead End at 11:00am
- Out of My Mind at 12:15pm
- Crossover at 1:30pm
You really should be on the hangout so that you can ask questions about any work, or the reading. The invite will be posted each Thursday morning on your GC by 10:00am for the week.
This week will be like starting over, but I am confident we will be able to do it. The novels are not available on the free audible collections, unless you have a membership, so I will be reading them out loud, recording, and posting them. Aren’t you lucky?
So here we go; get your Independent Reading Project turned in by Thursday the 16th (on our original GC), and get ready to have a blast with a new novel. I am so excited to read these books with you and to see your smiles on hangout this coming Thursday.
Take Care and Hugs,
Chelly Eifert