The Adventures in Mrs. Ripp's Class

Students in English have been practicing analyzing a character using the 1st chapter from the book Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhoarse.  This Wednesday, they have their re-written character analysis due.  To do this analysis, they may need the following:

The text can be found here 
The example and progression chart can be found here
The rubric can be found here
Directions can be found here

They have been given 30 minutes of work-time in class as well on this, where many were able to finish.

• Grenade by Alan Gratz
• Miles Morales Spiderman by Jason Reynolds
• From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
• Amulet book 8 by Kazu Kibuishi
• Fault Lines in the Constitution by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson
• Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab
• Rebound by Kwame Alexander
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Dog Man : Lord of the Fleas by Dav Pilkey
• Track series by Jason Reynolds

• To set a reading challenge goal for themselves, this will be done in class tomorrow.
• To read at least two hours outside of class every week.
• To read at least 25 chapter books or more.
• To only read great books for them, whatever that may be.
• If they do not want to do a quantity goal, they can challenge themselves in another way, such as
  • Reading longer books than you normally do, if so, what is your typical range of pages?
  • Reading harder vocabulary books.
  • Trying new formats of books, if so which?
  • Trying new genres, if so which?
• They do not need to log their minutes but we will keep track of books in class.