Welcome to English 9 Literacy Dynamics!

Welcome to English 9, Literacy Dynamics! I am really looking forward to working with you this year. We have spent the first couple of weeks getting to know each other and setting goals for ourselves. We watched the movie "The Karate Kid" in order to think deeply about how people cope with struggle and difficulty, and we attempted to make connections between our own lives and the situations the character, Daniel, finds himself in. We began our first reading piece today. We started with a pre-reading strategy, called a "Sort and Predict." Then we scanned the article and refined our predictions. We managed to begin the article, with the goal of summarizing the main ideas as we read. We will continue reading this article on Friday.