Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: As we start our grammar week, and prepare for Friday's test, we enter our LAST grammar chapter. This chapter sums up all of the grammar work students have done this year as we explore the construction of an essay. Why, might you ask, would we learn how to write an essay after we have already written an essay? Well, in this way, the concepts that we have discussed come to the student as more of a "refresher" or "review" of material. In this sense, it is much more likely that a student will remember these lessons in the long term as they examine the writing they have already done in hindsight. That said, much of what we are studying this week is what we have preached all year long, so the repetition helps significantly.

LITERATURE: We collected out Where The Red Fern Grows books today and started our new read, The Egypt Game. Tomorrow, students will be shown their assessment for this book, which will involve examining a character from the book and writing a profile of that character. If students would like a preview of this assignment they can check their Google Classroom accounts for Literature.

RELIGION: This week's chapter is the last of our Family Life unit. We are examining the term "community" and what that means for us as Catholics within our society at large. Additionally, our lesson today spoke to family finances and home economics and I encourage my students to reach out to their parents to discuss the many ways in which our families make "ends meet."

SOCIAL STUDIES: Our lesson focused on life and death within Egyptian Society and the role that religion played. This is a very similar lesson to what we have seen in Mesopotamia and India, so students are making strong connections between our units. Homework is found on page 115 #1-5.

MATH (8:00 class) pgs 269-270 1-12  (9:00 class) pg 316 1-29

SCIENCE  pg 191 1-4