October
23
ELA 30: Oct 23 Reading ch 2 together… TKAM
- Students came in and we began quickly with a check on whether the two chapter questions assigned were completed from yesterday. There were two other questions on their chapter question sheet that we only discussed as a class instead of having them respond.
- We looked at an attached handout that was with their TKAM package. The handout looked at quotes from the novel stated about Boo Radley or his family and the task was to read into what was stated and understand how people must have felt about the family to make such statements.
- The focus, for today’s oral reading, was to watch for the punctuation as we read together. Specifically, I wanted students to look for the introductory phrases at the beginnings of sentences that set up the sentence and are separated by a comma. Also, they were to look for the interjectory phrases (that could be included in a sentence by the use of brackets) and see how the voice of the reader changes slightly when reading the injected portion.
Through the oral reading of this novel and with the other students reading along in their books, students should find not only that their own reading improved but that their understanding of language should as well.
- I was quite pleased to see that the students were enjoying the novel already, as was evident through their laughing and disbelief of the portion we were reading. Miss Jean Louise (Scout) Finch sure is one ornery little girl!!