Team White has had a great start to the school year. It has been wonderful meeting with individual students to talk about their summer reading books and to learn more about them. Students have been getting used to the room 108 routines and becoming familiar with eighth grade literacy expectations. We have been looking closely at informational reading, using Notice and Note nonfiction signposts and examining various articles and literary terms. Various "beginning of the year" requirements have been met, so now we will be reading some interesting pieces and writing about them while learning how to properly respond to the text we read and analyze.
Stepping into 8th grade literacy...