{"id":5558,"date":"2025-09-17T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:39:52","slug":"middle-school-ela-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/middleschool\/2025\/09\/17\/middle-school-ela-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle School ELA Update 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hopefully you\u2019ve noticed your student reading this week\u2019s short story and writing in their composition book at home. By using the composition book, students are challenged to rely less on technology for ideas and distractions and more on their cognitive abilities and personal penmanship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve adopted a literature circle approach to our short stories this week, taking the week to focus on working in groups to discuss and analyze a text. In this way, our goal was to divide and conquer with each person being responsible for summarizing the story (practice is progress!) and then a specific part of analysis: vocabulary, discussion questions, or connections to the text. After groups met to share and discuss what they found for their role with interacting with text, each member reflected on their own and each member&#8217;s preparedness and participation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To engage with your student, you could ask them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what short story we are reading this week,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the major plot points from the story (key to summarizing!),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how well their group worked together, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sixth grade: the guilt or madness of the protagonist in \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seventh grade: the effect hindrances had on their ability to analyze symbols in \u201cHarrison Bergeron\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eighth grade: the guilt or madness of the protagonist in \u201cThe Black Cat\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep reading into next week to see what we are engaging with next! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully you\u2019ve noticed your student reading this week\u2019s short story and writing in their composition book at home. 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