Erik's First Blog

Agenda
1. Poem/Blog
2. Reader's Theater
3. P.E.E.L.L.~ Review sentence frames
4. Author's Chair!*(couldn't get to it, saved for Monday)

Homework
Begin choosing an experience for your personal narrative

Today we started off by reading our four poems for the beginning of class. Then Ms. Witham explained our homework to us so that we would have a better understanding of it. We can use ideas from our Random Autobiographies to help us decide on a significant event to write about. After that we finished our final two groups for our Reader's Theater, which is the reading and explaining of certain passages of the book I Am Malala.

Then we practiced for the first time today how to do the P.E.E.L.L. (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Language, Link) strategy, which Ms. Witham gave us ten minutes to get as far as we could on, and she gave us the option of working by ourselves or with our group. Then we turned in our R.A. (Random Autobiography) and the period was over.