OM: What impact did having ringworm have on Rifka's journey? Use as many spelling words as you can in your answer.
With a little over a month until the state assessment, and the third benchmark coming up the week after Christmas break, we'll be concentrating on the reading/writing portion of the test. We reviewed thesis-proof and will try a slightly different strategy for titling paragraphs in the reading. Instead of struggling over a proper title, student will underline important details and the main idea in each paragraph, ask themselves, "What is this paragraph about?", then write what comes to mind in the margin. They are not to take more than 3 seconds to do this. If an answer doesn't come to mind, keep reading.
It is important manage time wisely during the assessment. The last thing we want is students rushing through the end of the test, or not finishing at all, because they've spent too much time on titling.
Students read a passage according the above directions and finished the first constructed response. We'll continue tomorrow.
Homework:
~Study spelling/vocab
~Keep reading Rifka, at least another 10 pages
~response journals
~question packet
