Language Arts: Our current unit of study is Literary Essays. Naming the protagonists' character traits in our short stories, will help develop our thesis statements for our essays. Homework during this unit will be to write at home and try out the same strategy that we worked on during the day. During our day, we will use a shared text to try out our writing strategies and for homework students will work with a different short story of their choosing. This homework will not be checked on a daily basis BUT students will be required to produce an in-school literary essay as well as an at-home literary essay. Our goal is finish both prior to Winter Break. There will be daily posts here to display what writing strategies were taught that day. See the list above of the short story choices. We have access to all of the short stories in class, though most can be found online in PDF form.

Reading- Duffield- hour 2- Set the purpose for reading- finding a character trait of the protagonist & thinking about what motivates them. Homework- Assignment 5- due 11/20 & Fluency read due 11/20.

Social Studies- Discussed the geography and early settlements of Egypt, Kush and Canaan. QUIZ on Tuesday, November 24th. 

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* Bonus question- What street do you live on? Please come and tell me before 7:35 tomorrow morning.