RAH

All GCISD students are required to read on a regular basis throughout the year outside of the classroom.  In my class, students may read any type of reading material, including books, magazines, newspapers, and articles on the Internet.  The students are to read 100 minutes a week, on at least three different nights. They need to record their reading on a RAH log, available in the classroom. RAH logs are due on Mondays.  Also part of RAH are the book talks that each student must complete each six weeks.  For more on those, see below. 

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Heritage Middle School

5300 Heritage Avenue

Colleyville, TX  76034

Phone: 817-305-4790

Fax: 817-267-9929

emily.garetson@gcisd.net

My Favorite Poem:

“The Road Not Taken”

By Robert Frost

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference. 

Book Talks:

Each six weeks, students must read a book that fits the theme of that six weeks, and give a book talk to the class about that book. Book talks are due by the end of each six weeks.  The themes of each six weeks are:

 

1st six weeks:

Award-Winning book

 

2nd six weeks:

Realistic Fiction or Mystery

 

3rd six weeks:

Biography

 

4th six weeks:

Book-Turned-Movie

 

5th six weeks:

Historical Fiction

 

6th six weeks:

Sci-Fi or Fantasy

RICH

RICH stands for Reading is Cool Here.  This silent, self-selected, in-class reading will occur about three days per week, for 15-20 minutes.  The students must select novels for RICH, in order to effectively build speed and fluency in reading.  The students are required to record their daily reading on their RICH logs, which they keep in their binders.  This log will be graded randomly each six weeks.  They also must write at least one short book review each six weeks after they have completed a book for RICH. 

Question of the Week:

 

What are the top three most-spoken languages in the world today?

 

Write your answer and your name on a piece of paper

and turn it in by Friday.

Mrs. Garetson’s Conference:

6th period (12:59-1:49pm)

 

Stampede Tutorials:

Every Monday (1:53-2:16pm)