Author Archives: Amanda Lichocki

Sep28

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  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #1 and SOAPSTone, read and annotate for Audience and Purpose.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your orange highlighter
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • MDG-Analyzing plot in a film.
Sep27

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  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #1 and your copy of SOAPStone, read and annotate for Speaker and Occasion.
    • Highlight textual evidence using your blue highlighter.
    • Label your evidence and explain through annotation.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • MDG-Plot Structure cont.
Sep26

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  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #1, read and annotate for connections. Highlight textual evidence using your yellow highlighter. Be sure to label each connection and explain through annotation.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • “The Most Dangerous Game”-Plot Structure.
Sep23

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  • Bellwork #12-Referencing your copy of SOAPStone, explain the following in your own words:
    • Purpose
    • Subject
    • Tone
    • Copy and Define the following Tone words. Keep this in your binder under your BW/SLOT tab:
      • Sarcastic
      • Impartial
      • Optimistic
      • Didactic
      • Disdainful
      • Solemn
      • Scholarly
      • Critical
      • Bitter
      • Malicious
      • Ironic
      • Gloomy
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
    • Reflection–Describe the setting in your book. Why do you think the author chose this particular setting? How does it help make the plot work? 
  • CM#1-Identify and explain through annotation the Purpose, Subject, and Tone of the Practice Article of the Week.
Sep22

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  • Bellwork #11-Referencing your copy of SOAPSTone, explain the following in your own words:
    • Speaker
    • Occasion
    • Audience
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • CM#1-Analyze Practice Article of the Week for Speaker, Occasion, and Audience.
Sep21

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  • Bellwork#10-Why is it important to make connections with a text?Explain.
    • Explain each type of connection:
      • Text to Text
      • Text to Self
      • Text to World
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
    • Reflection-Describe the protagonist in your book. What makes the protagonist likeable? What are his/her weaknesses? What are his/her personality traits?
  • CM#1-Referencing Practice Article of the Week, read for connections. If you were absent today, see Mrs. Lichocki for the article and instructions.
Sep19

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  • Bellwork #8-I want you to think about the reading strategies you use when you are having trouble with a text.
    • How do you figure out the meaning of words you don’t know?
    • What do you typically do when you are reading a difficult text?
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Picture Day!!!