Journal Prompts Response

As you are aware, two of the four reading assignments for the trimester  are due by October 15th.  Students should be working on two of the following choices:

• Fiction response
• Non-fiction response
• Biography response

Students and parents have been curious about the fourth reading response.  The fourth response is based on a second fiction book.  There is NO TEMPLATE for this assignment.  It is unique to each student as they have nine possible choices to choose from.  Thus far, as a class, we have done work around:

• identifying conflict
• identifying figurative language
• identifying mood (how the author makes YOU feel as the reader through his/her words)
• comparison of characters
• realistic/unrealistic
• identifying examples of irony 

IF your child is ready for this assignment, they should stick to choosing three of the above options.

As a reminder, there are nine total options.  Three will be chosen per trimester.

Please see the example to the right under the ELA tab.  As a class, we are reading RESTART and we have had class discussions about the book.  We will go over this example this week, but the concepts written about have already been taught in class.