Let's Discuss Learning!

Today's Goal: Work in individually and teams to evaluate your learning skills and struggles. This will give me an idea of what you need me to focus on in English class, allow us to practice working with a team, and let us discuss how we can be successful together.

Agenda:

1. Yay! You made it here! Thank you for remembering the class procedure. After you read through our agenda for the day, show me that you're ready to move on by closing your chromebook and getting out SIX (6) sticky notes. If you have some, yay! If you don't, there are sticky notes at the front of the room.
2. Stations Activity
3. Name Tag Communication/Reflection

Here are the sentences I'm going to ask you to think about today, so you have a chance to look at them before I ask you to finish them.

1. One of my areas of strength in school OR English class is ___
2. One of my areas of weakness in school OR English class is ___
3. To read and really understand a challenging story or article, I need ___
4. To produce my best writing, I need ___
5. Being kind and respectful in our classroom means that we ___
6. Being responsible in our classroom means that we ___

I will give you directions about how we will respond to these questions and what we're going to do with your answers. 

ON YOUR NAME TENT:

You may add other things, but please respond to one of the following questions no matter what:

1. What are your strengths and how can we utilize them?
2. What does success at the end of the year look like to you?

Homework:

Read the syllabus with a parent/guardian and fill out the forms!