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.

Scary Stories

This week we will be working on our scary stories in MyAccess!  I will keep the prompt open through the weekend in case anyone is feeling ambitions.  I take final grades next Monday!