Grade seven students have been doing literacy circles/discussion groups on their choice of Valerie Sherrard groups. As of today, they have completed four roles.  They need to continue to read and do roles nightly. All their seven roles need to be passed in on Wednesday June 12.  They are also working on a Book-in -the-Box  project during class.  They will present these on Thursday and Friday.   Sample connector role: They need to find two connections in their book. 1) When I read, “a hot nine hour trip” it reminded me of driving to Ontario. 13hours!  It was quite boring and I bet Stanley was bored having to sit on a hot bus for nine hours. Most people wouldn’t be able to handle sitting in a vehicle that long.  I’m kind of use to it now though, driving to Ontario twice and to New York City.       2)  Page 100 Holes “…he felt a jerk of astonishment. His mouth silently formed the name Kate Barlow…” I love this moment that Stanley just felt! It’s that moment you realize that you spent searching your mind for that one thing that was in the tip of your tongue the whole time! I have this feeling in math class. I’ll ask millions of questions then Boom, it hits me and I can’t believe I didn’t realize it like a hour ago.   Passage Master: Choose two selections from your book. Chapter 27 p. 116 “Every time Mr. Sir delivered water he poured Stanley’s  straight onto the ground… Mr. Pendanski  always gave Stanley a little extra. He’d fill Stanley’s canteen, let him take a long drink and then top off his canteen.”    I think this small paragraph is interesting because again Stanley is getting a little bit of special treatment; not that he doesn’t deserve it.  Mr. Sir is being an idiot but I just hope the other boys don’t see or they’ll be angry. Chapter 29 p.128  I think the phrase” I found refuge on God’s thumb” is puzzling.  I think…