Wednesday, Feb 1

Proposed agenda–
A Design-thinking look at public speaking
Rereading our Duke Ellington biopoem
Creating our own biopoems (reading, thinking, writing, speaking/sharing)
Sharing and celebrating our creativity (i.e., our biopoems)
Practicing metacognition on ourselves

Upcoming topics–

• A Design-thinking look at practicing metacognition  (How many ways can you think of to practice metacognition?)
• Slow reading! It's good for you.

For Monday (and next week in general)–
Read Betty Ray's Design-Thinking piece online
Read Barbara Moss's Content Area Literacy in the Elementary Grades (pdf)
Blog entry #3 due Sunday night by midnight on these two pieces (follow blog guidelines)
Response to at least one of your peer's blog postings by Tuesday night at midnight