Thurs. 11/19/15

Learning Target:

• Listen to other themes for a text and how they are developed throughout the story
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of slang words from the 1960s

Work Collected:

• Theme t-charts
• Formative assessment: Note card with theme information

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• Give your parents The Outsiders letter

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Groups essays
• Read through yesterday's draft and add transitions
• Share out to the class
• Turn these in with each person's t-chart worksheet
• Notecard: reflect on group work + define "theme"
• Introduction to The Outsiders
• Publishing information
• Examples of slang: use context clues to determine meaning