Students had the first 30 minutes of class to read, annotate, and respond to today's article of the week and read independently while I held reading conferences with individual students.
Today's article: "Nerd Alert: Reading Is Good for Your Health" (this is an updated version of the article students read in class)
We finished up the writing assignment from yesterday.
I briefly introduced some poetry terms, and we viewed an example of spoken word poetry: "Hands" by Sarah Kay (the first 3:40 of the video). We will resume this work tomorrow.
