Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: After discussing the Pronoun Agreement with the students, we began reviewing the concepts and vocabulary terms that will be on tomorrow's test. At this point, students have written 2 unit/chapter tests for English and should have a strong understanding of what preparation methods of theirs have been successful and which ones have not. While I haven't assigned any specific review as homework, I have guided students to specific review materials that will help them with tomorrow assessment.

LITERATURE: Today we built on our concepts of developing inferences to creating characterizations. This means selecting a character and reviewing the text for all mentions of this character, by the narrator, by other characters, or by the character them self. It is reviewing these comments, thoughts and actions that we can begin to establish what "type" of character this is, with the idea being that someone who hasn't read the story should be able to get a good vision of our character strictly from our description.

RELIGION: Today's review session will prepare students for their open-book test tomorrow.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We began today's session with a short video that summarizes what we learned about early civilizations and adds details about ancient Mesopotamia. As we move to study this region over the coming weeks, this video served the purpose of attaching new information to old and previewing some of the details we plan to uncover. Students were provided with a note-taking style that I have found helpful in the past called Cornell Notes. This style provides an organized framework for student notes and questions about the text, any text! The use of Cornell Notes is not restricted to videos but can be used in any informational format. We then used partner reading to learn about the region known as "The Fertile Crescent."

MATH (8:00 class) WS 2-1 + pg 73 10-25  (9:00 class) pg 80 1-33 + AC Math

SCIENCE pg 47 1-4