Week of October 21-25
October 21: Assignment #22: How Invade Kills Bed Bugs assignment & CER
October 22: Given Gotta Have It Checklist and Unit Summaries (see previous post). Assignment #23 – Bubble Map Answers: students select 3 questions from any of our group bubble maps posted in the room and answer them.
October 23-24: Assignment #20 – Close and Critical Reading In addition to the earlier work done on assignment #20 (roadblocks, text features) students annotated to include box and summarize and connections. Then, we completed all four boxes of a CCR Framework on the back of the page.
– Box 1: What does the author say? (Summary)
– Box 2: How does the author say it? (Author’s Craft / Discuss Text Features)
– Box 3: What does the author mean? (P.I.E. / Author’s Purpose)
– Box 4: What does the writing mean to me? (Text to Self connections, or Text to Text / Text to World)
October 25: Assignment #24 – Lab Kerfluffle: Students read about the Labrador Retrievers and complete a CER following prompts. The assignment stays in students’ binders.