Thursday/Friday, March 8/9, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:       Book Sign-Ups were due February 28!   Biography Autobiography/Memoir Literary Nonfiction If you  weren't here to get the Nonfiction Book-of-the-Month Assignment, you can download it from here:  Nonfiction Book of the Month Rubric.doc Due by  March 21. Finding the Central Idea Graphic Organizer.docx Recommended Nonfiction Example for Nonfiction Book of the Month See the tab above for required reading for more information.    Important End of Term Information:   March 2  was the deadline for handing in late and revised work, unless you make special arrangements with me.                             The term ends Friday. Your book sign-up goes on this term.  Your lowest conventions grade is being excused.  No more conventions or spellings retakes unless you had arranged that ahead of time with me.  If you had not originally taken any of the conventions and spelling tests, you may take them Tuesday or Thursday during Cave Time.  Hand in your unused hall passes this week.   Still looking for Nonfiction?   Coming soon to the Media Center: Becoming Madeleine, about Madeleine L'Engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time.                     You could request this even before it arrives.

Targets for Today:  I can show what I know on a practice for our end-of-year test.  (Testing will begin mid-April.)

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading 2. Receive test ticket. Go to Lab 224.  Take a practice test on informational reading. Mastery == 23 /23 points At or Near == 17/23  -- Immediately retake Below == 12/23 -- Immediately retake If you have reached mastery or above -- go ahead and do the reading literature test.  If quick feedback is not working during class you will earn --  Mastery == 23 /23 points At or near  or Below  -- 10/10 for participation If you finish early, go ahead and do the Literature Test.

If You Were Absent: See above.  You are excused from the practice test.

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