The document outlines an agenda for a Monday meeting that includes a mini-lesson on marginalia, a reading on making inferences from picture books and short texts, a fishbowl discussion activity using specific rules, coding a text with symbols to note comments and questions, and assigning a lesson plan demo. It provides context and instructions for various activities to take place at the meeting.

1. Agenda for Monday, Oct. 18 Mini-Lesson “ Marginalia” by Billy Collins Collaborative Annotation Reading as a Process by Kylene Beers Coding the Text One Question/One Comment Fishbowl Discussion During Reading: Making inferences Picture Books: Zoom , Ring! Yo? , and Black and White Taboo, everyday observations ambiguous headlines, short fiction After Reading: SWBS, The Appointment by Somerset Maugham Demo Lesson Plan Assignment

2. Coding the Text  I agree. x I disagree. + That’s a new idea. ? I don’t understand. * This is important. ! That’s interesting! One Question/One Comment

3. Rules for a Fishbowl Discussion Only the students in the inner circle may speak. No student can be made to leave the inner circle until he or she has had the chance to speak at least once and to finish speaking. After a student speaks at least once, anyone from the outer circle may tap him or her on the shoulder. A tapped student returns to the outer circle and the tapper takes his or her place. A student may not re-enter the inner circle until two minutes have passed. ~Barry Gilmore, Speaking Volumes, p. 22

4. Making Inferences The goalie on the soccer team is limping. Your dog stands over the empty water bowl, whining. Your mother is wearing her new shoes for the first time and walking at a snail’s pace.

5. Making Inferences In the middle of the first act of the school play, the lead actor forgets his lines. On the first day of kindergarten, the five-year-old child’s lips are quivering. Water is dripping from the kitchen ceiling.

6. Making Inferences Your best friend’s eyes are swollen and red. On Saturday morning your mom bakes an apple pie for the new neighbors. Your math teacher left today’s test at home.

7. Ambiguous Headlines Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should be Belted Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years in Checkout Counter

8. Ambiguous Headlines Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Eye Drops Off Shelf Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years

9. Ambiguous Headlines Miners Refuse to Work After Death Iraqi Head Seeks Arms Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim ~Reading for Understanding , pp. 101-102

10. “ At the Window” (Beers, p. 62) He put down $10.00 at the window. The woman behind the window gave $4.00. The person next to him gave him $3.00, but he gave it back to her. So, when they went inside, she bought him a large bag of popcorn.

11. “ At the Window” (Beers, p. 62) Characters (including descriptions) Problem/Conflict Setting (time and place) Outcome/Resolution

12. The Scarlatti Tilt by Richard Braughtin “ It’s very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who’s learning to play the violin.” That’s what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

13. The Scarlatti Tilt by Richard Braughtin Characters (including descriptions) Problem/Conflict Setting (time and place) Outcome/Resolution

14. Conversation Piece by Ned Guymon Characters (including descriptions) Problem/Conflict Setting (time and place) Outcome/Resolution

15. SWBS: The Appointment The master wants wine and figs, but he doesn’t have any, so he sends his servant Abdullah. Abdullah wants wine and figs, but he sees death, so he runs home to his master. Death wants Abdullah, but is surprised when he’s in the marketplace, so she stares at him. Abdullah wants to escape Death, but the old woman has an appointment with him elsewhere, so he dies anyway.

16. What does this image bring to mind? What does it cause you to think or wonder about?

17. Prediction Party As you mingle, please . . . share the phrase on your card with as many classmates as possible listen as classmates read their words/phrases discuss how the words might be related speculate on what these phrases, collectively, might be about Then in small groups, write a “We think” statement describing what your group thinks this essay will be about.

18. “ The Universe is Conspiring to Help Us” by Kevin Kelly As you listen and read along, highlight the words and phrases you remember from the prediction party. Make notes in the margins, connecting the highlighted words to the title of the essay. Write an “I think” statement expressing what you think the main idea of the essay is. Share your thinking in your small group, and write a new “We think” statement together.

19. When I was in my 20s, I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up, and I was never late. Each morning, I counted on the service of ordinary commuters who had lives full of their own worries and yet, without fail, at least one of them would do something generous, as if on schedule. As I stood there with my thumb outstretched, the only question in my mind was simply, “How will the miracle happen today?”

20. What are you thinking about the image now? What more can you say about it after having read and discussed Kevin Kelly’s essay? How do you think the ideas in the image and the essay are connected or related?