Friday, Jan. 25 Agenda

• Discuss Bell Ringer
• First Novel: Flight by Sherman Alexie
• Intro to Alexie –finish the last three paragraphs independently, close reading
• Response writing in 30 min.
• While responding: what are you thinking about the book we will be reading? What are points from the article that you are interested in seeing in the novel? Are there things you feel you won’t like? Why? Any response to what we have talked about and read in the article!
• When you are done reading and highlighting/commenting, read your independent book while we wait for most to be done
• Response writing on your blog:  While responding: answer any of the questions above: Any response to what we have talked about and read in the article!
• Needs to be a well-organized paragraph (think of the notes from yesterday)
• At least one paragraph, maybe more...
• When done, read your book

Intro to book, how the unit will work