Homework due Monday the 15th/Tuesday 16th
Assignment 1 of 4
Please finish your “Personal Reading History” in your notebook by next class. I will not be collecting this from you during class but I will be checking that it is part of your notebook.
Please remember to use the proper assignment heading format. (Forgot it? Check out the syllabus or the second page of the summer assignment PDF posted to this website.)
Here are the questions you need to respond to. Your responses should each be at least 2 sentences long.
1. What do you read and why?
Please finish your “Personal Reading History” in your notebook by next class. I will not be collecting this from you during class but I will be checking that it is part of your notebook.
Please remember to use the proper assignment heading format. (Forgot it? Check out the syllabus or the second page of the summer assignment PDF posted to this website.)
Here are the questions you need to respond to. Your responses should each be at least 2 sentences long.
1. What do you read and why?
2. What was your best reading experience to date?
- How did you feel about yourself (and about reading in general) after each experience?
- How did these experiences affect how you read now (do you try harder and enjoy reading more, or have you stopped trying and/or stopped caring, etc.)?
3. What was your worst reading experience to date?
- How did you feel about yourself (and about reading in general) after each experience?
- How did these experiences affect how you read now (do you try harder and enjoy reading more, or have you stopped trying and/or stopped caring, etc.)?
4. Who (teachers, parents, friends) or what (strategies, activities) has helped your reading development?
Assignment 2 of 4
Please CATCH both texts on the handout you were given in class: Sandra Cisneros’ “Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark” and “Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut and Papaya Juice”
CATCHing a text means annotating it (taking notes on it) in the following way:
Circling TWO+ unfamiliar words (words you don’t understand, words used in multiple/different contexts)
Acknowledging ONE area of the text (sentence in a paragraph, paragraph in an article) where you are confused … This means writing out ONE question you have as you are reading the text.
Talking to the text by doing THREE of the following activities: commenting on the text, making connections, making predictions, noting observations (about language choices, story details, etc.)
Capturing the main idea/theme in ONE sentence total.
Highlighting up to TWO important details from the text (key words or phrases) that relate to the main idea/theme you determined above.
Assignment 3 of 4
You should have your notebook with you for every class. Please be sure to bring it next week.
If you have not turned in your signed syllabus page and/or your Student Info Sheet, please make sure you do so.
CATCHing a text means annotating it (taking notes on it) in the following way:
Circling TWO+ unfamiliar words (words you don’t understand, words used in multiple/different contexts)
Acknowledging ONE area of the text (sentence in a paragraph, paragraph in an article) where you are confused … This means writing out ONE question you have as you are reading the text.
Talking to the text by doing THREE of the following activities: commenting on the text, making connections, making predictions, noting observations (about language choices, story details, etc.)
Capturing the main idea/theme in ONE sentence total.
Highlighting up to TWO important details from the text (key words or phrases) that relate to the main idea/theme you determined above.
Assignment 3 of 4
You should have your notebook with you for every class. Please be sure to bring it next week.
If you have not turned in your signed syllabus page and/or your Student Info Sheet, please make sure you do so.
Assignment 4 of 4
Since you will be taking a LevelSet test for much of the period Monday/Tuesday, please make sure to bring something to read after you finish your test.