All students set up their Reading Folders for the year.
7th grade
We read Gwendolyn Bennett's poem Hatred and answered 3 critical questions about this poem in our Reader's Notebooks. We then shared our responses. We also read a student-written personal essay entitled The Man in the Casket to expose us and prepare us for the first genre in which we will be writing: the personal essay.
Homework:
None
8th grade
We read and discussed Gregory Orr's poem Gathering the Bones. We also read Gwendolyn Bennett's poem Hatred and had a brief sharing about our own experiences with negative emotions. We discussed the use of writing to help us process experiences and myriad emotions. We then read a student-written personal essay entitled The Man in the Casket to expose us and prepare us for the first genre in which we will be writing: the personal essay. We discussed some of the effective writing techniques the student used to lure us into her story.
Homework:
None
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