Belonging; Applied Kinetics

Today, students took a gander at this opening powerpoint right here, and completed Journal Response #5: "Belonging". It was tied to Speak, but invited personal reflection.

This was, of course, after I had returned students' Classwork Composition Notebooks, which I had collected and checked on Friday.

• If you missed Friday, I need your notebook.
• If you missed today, Monday, I have your notebook to give back to you. Please complete Journal #5, available above.

Next, we moved to Applied Kinetics. For this activity, students moved to different quadrants of my classroom to indicate their understanding of whether characters from Speak were R/F/D/S.*

*Looking back on this, I wish I had portioned more class time for this activity.

Tomorrow, students will expand their breadth of character understanding by familiarizing themselves with S.T.E.A.L.

I would tell you what that means, but hey, that's tomorrow's class.