Investigating Your Book Club Novel: October 2, 2019

Focus: What am I noticing and wondering in the opening chapters of my novel?

1. Warming up with ten minutes of tracking your thinking: See "Track Your Thinking" sheets with my handwritten directions

• Paste the "Tracking Your Thinking" sheet in the "Passage Study" part of your notebook.

• Write for at least a full 10 minutes on your book club novel so far. Use as many of the prompts on the sheet as you need to fill the 10 minutes, but you are under no obligation to use all of them.

2. Taking 5 minutes to touch base with your group, making sure you know the following:

• Who is in charge of the syllabus for tomorrow? Click HERE for the sample syllabus.

• What chapter do you need to read through for tomorrow?

3. Reading your book club novels silently (and preparing your syllabus if you're done with the reading)

HW:
1. For THURSDAY: Assigned book club reading and syllabus-making. First book club meeting! Remember that the syllabus must be finished BEFORE class begins. 

2. For FRIDAY: 

• Deliver your one-minute speech on your independent reading book. Please note that if you are absent on Friday, you will need to deliver your one-minute speech to the whole class on Monday

• You will also submit your notebook on Friday for Notebook Check #2.  I will be looking largely at what you've done with "Self-Reliance" and with "Walden."