Lately in class we have been reading a new novel. It is so entertaining! Give it up for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry! Personally, I think that writing it out takes a long time. So I'm going to shorten it to ROTHMC. ROTHMC is a real page turner and it seems like Ms. Bad makes us stop at the worse possible moments. Talk about cliffhangers. We listen to a CD so we can hear the Southern dialect correctly from an expert. While we read, we have different purposes for reading. For some chapters, we had to make inferences about characters and the historical time period. We also focused on the Southern dialect and determining what some examples of slang meant in the story. We talked about character qualities for another chapter and also practiced using metacognition to monitor our comprehension. If you didn't understand that last part, then it means to think about your thinking. Which to me seems really confusing because if you're thinking about your thinking, can't you think about your thinking about your thinking? Never mind. What has been your favorite part of the book? What do you think will happen in the end?
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AuthorLiteracy Linguist: Megan Archives
May 2018
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