THURSDAY & FRIDAY: Today the students worked towards mastering GPS ELA8W2.e which requires them to take notes, paraphrase, and summarize. We used a recent newspaper article describing an encounter between campers in Helen, Georgia, and three bears. After reading the article, students used a 5W1H graphic organizer to gather notes. The next step was to begin to paraphrase the information from the notes into detailed sentences.
Tomorrow we will use these paraphrased sentences to draft a coherent, informative summary of the article. We will also write one reflective paragraph that discusses either how the events of the article impact us as Georgians, how we connected to the events of the article in a personal way, or how the problems of the article should be solved. If time permits, we will also have time for independent reading.
Download Bear encounter in Helen
Download Questions for Reflection bear article
