Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: After some flash cards where students identified words from their definitions, each class performed three assignments from the Sadlier website. In these assignments students were asked to derive the meaning of specific words and phrases based on the context of the written piece. From there, with the time remaining in class, students worked on their essays for Where The Red Fern Grows.

LITERATURE: Students worked on their essays for Where The Red Fern Grows. For today students should be drafting their ideas. I suggest beginning with their body paragraphs and spelling out what they would like to say. Students should avoid using personal pronouns and remove all personal references from their writing. This essay is not an opinion piece and therefore the beliefs and opinions of the writer are unimportant. Instead students should present their work as an examination of evidence and how the evidence supports their theme. They are interpreting the information without saying it is their own interpretation.

RELIGION: In today's lesson we examine how as people age they change and how those changes affect our relationships and how we experience the world. We focused on the elderly and how much our elders have to offer our community and our society.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Our lesson looked at the rule of the Pharaohs and how it was that a distant ruler was able to unite a vast area and what that necessarily looked like. In this light, we witnessed 2 pharaohs, Hatshepsut and Ramses II. One female, one male. One ruling through trade, the other through conquest. Both are significant to the story of Egypt but each are treated differently in the eyes of history. Homework for this section is on page 105 #1-7

MATH (8:00 class) pgs 262-263 1-28 all  (9:00 class) pg 308 1-31

SCIENCE  finish land form sketch due tomorrow