Getting Meta: March 15, 2018

Focus: How do our brains process difficult and beautiful texts?

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1. Warming up with your class journal and blogs:

• Understanding the basics of Chapter 1 with a partner interview

• Rereading the last page of Chapter 1 and brainstorming possible symbols as a class

2. Offering you an overview of your reading journal opportunities and establishing your fishbowls

• Click here if you'd like to preview the reading journal/conference rubric.

3. Reading Chapter 2 and trying out the metacognitive on the Valley of Ashes and the Eyes of Dr. T.J Eckelberg

HW:
1. By FRIDAY: Finish reading Chapter 2 and complete your journal entry if you did not finish in class.

2. By TUESDAY: Start reading Chapter 3 and completing your journal entry (due before class on Tuesday)

3. Chapter 3 fishbowl leaders need to complete their syllabus and post it to the class website before class. Remember that you are exempt from the journal on the day you are a leader. Chapter 4 leaders should try to read ahead.