Genesis: We spent reading workshop engaged in reading and discussion of the memoir Red Scarf Girl.  In addition, we practiced reader response techniques in writing using Nancie Atwell’s sentence openers with our partners.  We also reviewed the “idea-evidence-interpretation” literary argument format and applied it to constructing reader responses to Red Scarf Girl.  Please see writing workshop (complete sentence analysis and practice; narrative writing) further referenced in this week’s team newsletter.

Legacy: We held a fiction writer roundtable to provide meaningful group feedback on our current independent writing drafts.  We focused on letter-essay development and reader response this week.  Our grammar study centered on identifying participles and manipulating them through informal sentence branching.

Explorers: We continued reading and interpreting Greek myths with our partners.  Please see this week’s team newsletter for more information.

Due to team rescheduling, Genesis X Block video projects will be concluded during reading time before the end of the school year.

Genesis: Red Scarf Girl should be finished by Monday 4/20.  Two idea clusters (idea-evidence-interpretation) are also due Monday 4/20.

Legacy: Continue working on independent writing/reading.  Writing sample due Friday 4/24; letter-essay due Wednesday 4/28.

Explorers: Greek Mythology Project is due Monday 4/20.  Continue reading for your independent reading contract.  Don’t forget–Fahrenheit revisions are due before Tuesday to be reflected on midterms!