Home Visits! Venn Diagrams!

I made two home visits this week! The results were encouraging. The behavior I got in class ,after those two visits, was much improved.
We also had a blast comparing different types of music and identifying what makes one music this type and what makes another that type. We were comparing and contrasting using a Venn diagram. We decided that if we could find the similarities and the differences between two stories about music, we could apply those skills to the 8th grade TAKS reading passages. Sometimes on the TAKS reading test, two stories are related or connected and the questions after the passages are asking about both stories.
Hopefully, we can repeat the level of enthusiasm and increase the level of understanding for next time.