1. Personal Choice Reading Get out your Personal Choice Reading (PCR) book and start in. We’ll have 10-15 minutes to read today. Get out your Personal Choice Reading (PCR) book and start in. We’ll have 10-15 minutes to read today. Don’t have your book? Explore the class library and find one. Check out your book on the library clipboard. Don’t have your book? Explore the class library and find one. Check out your book on the library clipboard. Give your book a chance, but if you can tell right away that you haven’t picked a good fit, put it away and find another one. Give your book a chance, but if you can tell right away that you haven’t picked a good fit, put it away and find another one. Be thinking about the “marking up a text” symbols and how you’ll make a connection to your reading in your journal. Be thinking about the “marking up a text” symbols and how you’ll make a connection to your reading in your journal.

2. Did anyone finish a book since last class?

3. Talk about books… Take a few minutes and share last night’s journal entry with a partner. What connection did you make to the text (what symbol did you use)? Be specific… not just “this part was cool.”

4. Get out your article and the survey results from Tuesday (It’s the “Snookie” article and the notes from our in-class survey)

5. Socratic Seminar Prep: CONSTRUCTING QUESTIONS A good discussion must grow from good questions—if we aren’t wondering anything, what is there to explore? A good discussion must grow from good questions—if we aren’t wondering anything, what is there to explore? By the end of the period, you’ll be able to recognize different levels of questions and begin to write your own good questions. By the end of the period, you’ll be able to recognize different levels of questions and begin to write your own good questions. We’ll do this using something called “Costa’s House of Questions” We’ll do this using something called “Costa’s House of Questions”

6.  These are questions that can be answered from looking at the text

7. Let’s look at an example… A 6-word short story: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. - Attributed to Ernest Hemingway A level 1 question: What was for sale? Baby Shoes A level 2 question: Why were the baby shoes never worn?

8. It’s your turn… Pivot to groups of four Pivot to groups of four As a group, come up with… As a group, come up with… One level 1 question about either the article or the survey results One level 1 question about either the article or the survey results One level 2 or 3 question about either the article or the survey results One level 2 or 3 question about either the article or the survey results You will be sharing your group’s questions and we’ll vote as a class whether you’ve gotten it right! You will be sharing your group’s questions and we’ll vote as a class whether you’ve gotten it right!

9. A Quick 1-to-5 Hold up a 1 if you have no idea what the difference is between level 1 and level 2 & 3 questions Hold up a 1 if you have no idea what the difference is between level 1 and level 2 & 3 questions Hold up 5 if you could teach the next class period how to write level 1 and level 2 & 3 questions Hold up 5 if you could teach the next class period how to write level 1 and level 2 & 3 questions We’ll use this new knowledge tomorrow to construct great discussion-starting questions for our Socratic Seminar. We’ll use this new knowledge tomorrow to construct great discussion-starting questions for our Socratic Seminar. Don’t forget to read and journal tonight! Don’t forget to read and journal tonight!

10. Journals? If your journal is still not complete, bring it up front and I’ll help you with it. It needs… 1.A six-page packet inside front cover 2.A single page grid on first page 3.A three-page packet inside back cover 4.Your first and last name with period # on the front 5.The class “marking up a text” symbols written on 2 nd page