Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Content Objective: 1.02 Analyze expressive materials that are read by monitoring comprehension for understanding. 1.03 Interact in group activities and/or seminars in which the student shares personal reactions to questions raised and gives reasons and cites examples from text in support of expressed opinions.

Language Objective: Join small group discussion about a reading passage and corresponding questions.

Essential Question: Are my reading comprehension skills improving?

Today we continued reading comprehension skills practice. We checked the homework and discussed practical and proven methods used to find correct answers. We read a couple of poems, and created examples of free verse. For the poem Fifteen, two students were chosen to act it out.

We also reviewed figurative language terms.

Homework: Reading comprehension practice #44, SSR.