Thursday, Jan. 24 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading (10 Min)
• Writer’s Notebook: What does it mean to be a teenager (literal and deeper meaning)?  How does loneliness feel and what can it make a person do or think? How is loneliness tied to the teenage ideas? –keep writing on the idea of teens and/or loneliness until we move on
• Writing Craft Lesson- notes in that section of writer’s notebook
• Take notes on Paragraph structure
• Join Google Classroom for Contemporary Lit. then Join the Edublogs class (directions shared with you in Google classroom)
• Discussion: With your partner, finish talking about what you know or think you know about both the foster care system in the US and about Native Americans.
• You need to post your lists (with where idea comes from) as a comment on my blog: mrsjohnsoncontemplit.edublogs.org
• If you finished the writing sample yesterday, you need to read your book.  If you didn’t finish, this is your time. They are going to be graded tomorrow at 10:30 AM