Today in 6A & 6B

RELIGION: Students wrote their chapter 12 quiz today.

ENGLISH: Continuing our work with our research essays, our class time was focused on developing a strong pre-writing phase. In this work we are writing out our plan on how we intend to write our essays. We begin by turning our best research question into a strong thesis/claim statement. This sentence will be what we set out to prove or reveal. All of our evidence needs to support this so we then design the order in which we will talk about these things. After setting the order we plug our evidence into this order. We then write 3-4 sentences for EACH of the pieces of evidence that explains how this evidence supports our claim. This analysis will be the most important part of our essay, and the most difficult step in the pre-writing process. From here we will be ready to draft. Students whould be ready to begin drafting for our Monday class. Students will write their Unit 14 vocabulary quiz on Monday morning and begin drafting with the remainder of class time.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Shortly after taking up the homework from yesterday, we examined a new lesson which discussed trade and expansion of Greece. For different City-States the pressures and responses were different, and therefore yielded a different result. Homework for this section is on page 379 #1, 2, 4

MATH (8:00 class) pg 325 11-23  (9:00 class) pg 394 1-31