Whew! It's Friday and we have survived our first week back! We spent most of this week working through some pre-reading activities for To Kill A Mockingbird, which we will begin reading next week. The students have been very engaged through this process and are beginning to have a better understanding of the social and political setting of the South in the 1930's.
Due to our shortened class time today we were not able to create our Outside/Inside projects, so we will start with this first thing Monday. Students were asked to bring approximately 20 photographs that described themselves in ways that people were aware of/familiar with and in ways that may surprise people/are more 'hidden'.
We will use this activity to discuss the ways in which people grow and change and how stereotypes are formed.
The last blog post mentioned that the research quest project would be assigned today (Friday 1/8). We didn't quite get to it, due to the 35 minute class period, so we will look at that project assignment next week.
Next week is SAT week #6 and students are responsible for the following words:
contend
endorse
implement
obstinate
alleviate
contentious
enhance
impudence
ominous
aloof
contract (v)
enigma
As always, vocabulary work is due on Monday, we will review in class on Wednesday and our test will be on Thursday. Your child has a list of all weekly vocabulary words through week 10. These lists will also be posted on Homework Hero and here on the blog.
I hope everyone has a great weekend! I'll see the kiddos back on Monday!
ENM
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