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STAR Skills Q1: Common Core Close Reading & Language Skills {Middle Grades}

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Synthesizing Sources to Create Brochures for the Underworld!

Our last "creative" 8th grade project before watching The Odyssey was to take multiple reference sources describing the underworld and make a travel brochure:

Hyperbole Popsicles

Fun day of figurative language with paper popsicles and real popsicles!

Lights! Camera! Reading!

Added some lights to the book shelf hoping to draw some more attention to all of the awesome new books I just got in! Easiest way to effectively hang lights? Miniature clothes pins ❤️ them!

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Chalk Wall Success!

Questions students had for the story "All Summer in a Day":

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Successful Teaching Moment

8 weeks left of the school year and I feel that my kids have gotten the hang of independent annotation. Literally my only instruction: read and annotate!

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Spring Figurative Language Practice: Interactive Group Centers

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Annotating = Taking Notes; Not Just Underlining and Highlighting

8th grade example of independent annotation: 

 "aNOTEtation" is our key phrase to remind ourselves that close reading and annotating is not just underlining and highlighting a page. Making it colorful does not show a reader's understanding!

Color Symbolism in Poetry: "Green is..."