Hey, folks!  What a day!  You handed in what you ASSURED me were a huge stack of "A" performances in your friendly letters.  I can't wait to read 'em!  After that, we began breaking down the idea of "metacognition", or "thinking about thinking".  To do this, we're going to tackle Bloom's Taxonomy for Thinking, which will help us move away from the lower two levels (Understanding and Comprehension) and into the upper levels of Application, Analysis, Evaluating, and Synthesis.  Remember the example of creating a bird house in wood shop class if you need a little help.  Great work today, and no homework for tomorrow...unless you didn't hand in your letter packet today.  Oh, don't forget to wear your green and gold!

Hello to you on this beautifully sunny day!  In class today, we looked at an editorial cartoonfor our warmup, then helped our peers to an A performance with some peer editing (one more step in the process, right?).  The next draft (likely the final draft) of that letter is due on Wednesday, so be sure to keep all of the steps of your process, as they'll be included with the final product.  For homework tomorrow, please complete your Article of the Week review.  Remember, use TONS of notation as evidence of your thinking and trying to apply your strategies.

Hello!  In class today, we completed a Warm-Up that required you to work with prefixes and suffixes in order to figure out a new word (great strategy, eh?).  We then continued the analysis of my friendly letter in order for you to write a great one back to me.  No homework for tonight, unless your analysis page is not fully completed.

Hello there!  Today in class we completed our warm-up, had a look at your article analysis (hoping for better things tomorrow, right?  Most of them weren't so hot), and you were assigned your next Article of the Week, due tomorrow.   Remember, we're working on becoming ACTIVE vs passive readers, so make a BOATLOAD of notation as you read.  Next, we began to examine a friendly letter, in order for you to determine how to write a great one back to me.  Also remember to bring something in for a little SSR tomorrow.  Thanks!