“Thank You Ma’am” as Anchoring Text

Monday 18 August 2025

After having student-led mindfulness sessions,

A student chooses and leads the mindfulness exercise today

all students worked on our text for the week, "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. We'll be using it to help us create a successful initial Socratic seminar tomorrow, and we'll return to it throughout the week as we look at academic skill of inferring Wednesday and again on Thursday for character development.

Today's Journal Prompt

How did you feel about completing your lit circle job (summarizer, connector, questioner, illustrator) over the weekend? How confident do you feel when you think about doing this with a new text, working all by yourself?

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