Today we worked on essays based on The Hiding Place. The students are writing five paragraph essays in which they discuss a theme (message) of the book and use examples from the story to show how this theme is conveyed. We looked today at the structure of an essay--introduction, body, and conclusion--and what is included in each of the parts. I also gave the students a writing guide for their essays; it's designed to help them think about each sentence they write and how it is related to the essay as a whole. We spent some time writing in class, we will have a little more time to work in class on Friday. The essays will then be due next week Wednesday.
We also prepared today to move on to our next reading assignment. The students will be working in groups called Book Clubs to read novels together. Each club will be assigned a different novel. Groups will have reading assignments each day, and each member of each club will have a job to do related to that reading. The clubs will meet during class and members will work together to present and complete the assigned jobs. Today we talked about book clubs and learned about the jobs, and on Friday students will receive their club assignments and we'll get started reading!
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