First Impressions

Today, students were asked to complete a worksheet titled, "First Impressions," in order to give me some sense of how they are interacting with the novel they have chosen to read. Students are being asked to ask questions, make inferences about character, make mental pictures, and connect personally and to other texts, in order to push their thinking in different ways. If you did not submit your First Impressions page to me today, please do so on Friday. There is a link to the handout here on the blog, if you've lost yours, or you were away. Next class, we will be forging ahead with our news articles. Students are going to write fictional news stories, about an event of their own creation. We have studied the features of news articles, and now we are going to put all the parts together to create our own, amazing stories.