This week, we are practicing metacognitive critical thinking and reading comprehension skills as we dive deeper into the meanings and intentions of the novels we’ve

Sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students have been reading different books respective to their class. However, a common thread connects them – and us –

It is the second week of student-led discussions for our novel study, which is in its third week. Sixth graders are discussing chapters 10-14 in

Middle schoolers are facilitating class over the next few weeks as we discuss their class’s assigned novels. While this has been the first week for

Now that we’ve read and written summaries and analyses about short stories, we are reading a novel as a class. Each grade is reading a

We are in the drafting process of our short story review, including completing our peer review process. During peer review, students read two-three of their

We all have opinions, and students are being encouraged to share theirs about one of the short stories we’ve read in the form of a

This week, students have chosen a short story to do a creative project about, electing to either recreate a scene with some sort of visual

We read our final short story this week! Soon, we will be demonstrating our interactions with and knowledge of the stories through a variety of

Hopefully you’ve noticed your student reading this week’s short story and writing in their composition book at home. By using the composition book, students are