Monday, January 5, 2015

Hello and Happy New Year!

We had a great day back and got busy right away.

Projects:
We are starting our weather unit.  Students are researching vocabulary terms and front loading so that they can start their big science fair weather project in the next couple of weeks. We will have a vocabulary quiz over all terms studied this week on Thursday, January 8.

8th Grade Reading:
Continuing with The Outsiders and will finish reading it this week.  We will have a Paideia Seminar next Thursday.  This is a round table discussion of various issues in the book.  Students will be required to speak at least twice, and provide text evidence with their responses.  This will be the final exam.

7th Grade Reading:
Continuing with Daily 5 and leveled comprehension passages.  Today we watched our "Year in Rap" in Flocabulary and discussed happenings from 2014.

Writing:
We are going to head into argumentative essays.  Today we did a "would you rather" exercise, where students looked up "would you rathers" and discussed them with table partners, giving both pros and cons.  We will look at more serious issues in the next few days and move into writing a larger piece.

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