Final Drafts and GoogleSlides

Students are to finish their final drafts and prepare to present their commentaries Monday the 9th.  They should have completed their essay and a GoogleSlide show with at least 2 pictures per paragraph.  We will presenting these commentaries in class during the week of the 9th!

Rough Drafts

Make sure that you've turned in your rough drafts of the Bold Actions essay so that I may give you feedback over break!  I hope everyone enjoys their winter vacation!  I will see everyone next year!

Opinion Commentaries about Bold Actions

Students are working on their end of the unit essay assignment about bold actions.  This paper will be due before Christmas break.  We are breaking it down and working on the different types of paragraphs in a persuasive essay.  Students are doing really well with recalling information from last year!

MyAccess.com

Students Bold Actions Narrative will be due turned in by Wednesday, so that I may add the grades in for their progress reports.  Expect reports home by Friday.

Week of Nov. 29th

After reading several stories and articles about characters and people taking bold actions, now it is time for students to take a turn.  This week students will be working on a MyAccess.com assignment.  They will be writing their own narrative (fiction or nonfiction) about a character who chooses to take a bold action.  The final grades will be taken next Monday, so students can work on their stories during the week and weekends if they would like.

Square 1 Art Fundraiser

Orders are due by November 30th so everything can be delivered before Christmas!!!

Week of Nov. 14th, 2016

Students will be working on group presentations this week that cite evidence to defend arguments.
Later on this week students will be reading about the start of woman in the field of aviation.  Thursday night students will have vocab homework; students are to write two sentences with context clues for each of the 4 vocab words found within the article titled Women in Aviation.