Strategies

October 16, 2008: Collecting Text-to-Self Connections in our Journals

October 23, 2008: Collecting Interesting and Unknown Words in our Journals

October 29, 2008: Collected more words. Collecting information about Raisin. Read up to page 100.

November 5, 2008: We played scrabble with some of the words we collected from the novel. We need to look closely at Raisin and what she is like. Respond to blog entries. Read up to page 130.

November 12, 2008: We played scrabble again and discussed the book. Continue reading up to page 149. In your butterfly and flower journals, list all the characters in the book so far. Write a short description of each character and anything you've noticed about those characters.