Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
1. Start New Entry: See new entry poster for format!!
Learning Target: Can you explain the symbolism of The Ghost Tree and describe Michael and Joe's friendship using evidence from the novel?
Add these to Vocab. List IV!
5. intention (intent, intently, intentional, intentionally): done on purpose, a plan, a desire.
6. hypocrite (hypocrisy, hypocritical): claiming to have beliefs about something and your personal behavior is the opposite.
Focus: Determining Important Ideas (page 176) "Joe's drinking had gotten worse..."
Compare how Joe has been characterized through out the book with this passage.
- Describe Michael and Joe's friendship using at least one text-based detail to support your answer.
- Get out your plot chart.
- Get out the storyboard of your chapter.
- Be prepared to share the plot of your chapter.
Add these two new words to Vocabulary List IV!
7. remorse (remorseful, remorseless): a feeling of deep regret or guilt about something you did wrong.
Learning Target: Can you explain how predictions help you understand or remember what you read?
This thought process help you remember events of the narrative and better understand it.
- Prediction: Joe hates Amy because she is not interested in dating him.
1. What opinions does Jenna have about Michael and Joe?
2. What is the effect of reading about the same event from two different points of view?
3. What do you think will happen in Swallowing Stones?
4. How might making predictions help you understand or remember what you read?
Do Now: Take out your character chart.
Homework: On a sheet of paper with a complete heading, answer the following question to hand in tomorrow for homework: How do you think the novel, Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald might end?
2. BEFORE You Start Reading: Make a prediction (a type of inference) about what you think is going to happen in the next section of your novel.
- Look at your prediction. Explain why your prediction was right or wrong and explain why.
9. furtive (furtively): attempting to avoid attention because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble.
10. persistent (persistently): continuing firmly in course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.
- Imagine you are the police investigating Charlie Ward's death. What information do you think is important to the case?
- How did you decide that these things are important?