Agenda, January 16

Do Tonight: Read 15 minutes.
Do This Weekend: Read 30 minutes each day.
Due Now: Bring your independent reading to class.  
Today's Learning Targets:                 I can read for pleasure.
I can write a concise summary. I can use an image to inspire a story.      
I can analyze the mood in a story.
I can practice the skills good readers use.     

1. What is mood? What is point of view?
2. Independent Reading / Independent Reading Journals
3. Talk about the POV.
4. What Good Readers Do
5. "Just Desert," by M.T. Anderson