Today we are jamming out to instrumental hip hop music and completing some of our novel packet for the novel we've been reading. We have started reading The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. I absolutely love this book. It is about a young boy who loses his family to consumption (tuberculosis) and leaves his home. He becomes an apprentice to a doctor. It is set in the 1800's. My students are so amazed at the history of medicine. They are baffled at how limited the knowledge of medicine and germs were in the 1800's.
I let my students work with a partner or in a group of 3 today, and they could work anywhere in the room. They love this! After they independently answered the questions for the chapters, we discussed the correct answers. I've used novel packets in different ways in the past. Sometimes I take pages for a grade and other times I use it as a discussion tool. The novel packet is basically their study packet for the test. For this particular novel our test will be at the very end.
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