10.6

=10 minutes Bell Ringer: Book Summaries=
 * Grab the book you're reading independently and preview the books at your table.
 * Read the synopsis on the covers of at least three books. Not the book blurbs (short sentences/phrases promoting the book) but the longer summary, telling what the book is about.
 * Do they give specific details about characters, setting, plot, themes?
 * Notice the sentences--are they mature sentences with phrases and clauses?
 * Notice the word choice--does the author burrito
 * use STRONG WORDS, especially MUSCLE VERBS?
 * How are these similar to the annotations you will write for the books you've read this quarter?

=10 minutes: Word Study=
 * Sublime and Vertigo

**25 minutes: Mini-Lesson: Sentence Variety: Absolute Phrases**
 * Read Aloud: //The Time Traveler's Wife//
 * Clare reading, **her hair hanging over the back of the chair,** massaging balm into her cracked red hands before bed.
 * Add Mini-Handbook to "Gems" section of Writer's Notebook.
 * Read
 * Scout for at least two (2) sentences with Absolutes to add to your notebook.

5 minutes Quick Assessment:
Write one sentence about a text you've read independently and post in discussion tab.

=Independent Reading/Writing Time=
 * Work on annotated reading list and/or independent reading.
 * You must have at least two (2) participial phrases and two (2) absolute phrases in your annotated reading list.
 * Add stunning sentences with participial phrases and absolutes to your Writer's Notebook in the "Gems" section--on the page beside your Participles Mini-Hand-Out that you glued into your notebook. Highlight the participial phrase(s).
 * Remember, by the end of the quarter, you should have collected five (5) sentences with participial phrases and two (2) with absolutes!

= Looming Deadline: =
 * Your annotated reading list is due no later than next Friday!