No Boring Parts Allowed!

Today, we practiced our ability to make predictions using pictures, viewing three images which seemed to come from action movies.  We then added the title of our poem, "No Boring Parts Allowed" to our prediction, and we figured that the poem would probably be about an action-movie fan who does not appreciate when things get slow in movies.

We then read the first section of the poem together, and Ms. Barsky shared some strategies she uses to help make sense of poems when she reads them.  After reading the first section together, we worked to summarize the main idea of the section, as well as note the surprising twist at the end of the section.  Students then worked with their mentors to try to figure out the other sections.  We will debrief section three next day.