August 14, 2012

15 Minutes SSR
Today we shared some more headlines.
We watched and discussed a short film “Autistic Girl Expresses Profound Intelligence.”
We responded both before and after viewing using this document to help us with the reading strategies of reading (viewing) purpose, accessing prior knowledge, reiterating new knowledge and connecting new knowledge to prior knowledge.

Homework: Disclosure document due on Friday, August  17th.
Collected in Class: Reading Strategies Exit Paper (above linked document)
Coming up: What is a memoir? genre study, daily vocabulary