Today in 6A!

RELIGION: Today was a session review for tomorrow's open-book test. This will likely be the last session from our Finding God resource as new workbooks have been issued to us. We will be employing the new books in the week following parent-teacher conferences.

ENGLISH: After doing our Flash cards, students were assigned an argumentative essay in response to the prompt: Homework is a valuable tool that should be mandatory for all subjects. Students began by indicating their feelings toward this topic and then jotting down bullet points that would help support their opinion. From this point students began drafting. We will continue this exercise tomorrow and students should be prepared to share their work for editing purposes with their table partner within the first 15 minutes of class. Final drafts will be due after class tomorrow.

LITERATURE: Today we started a new novel study. Thanks to the generous donation of one of our parents, we have a full class set of "The Wednesday Wars" to explore. This book presents at a higher  reading level than our last book, "Crash," and therefore requires a different approach. Instead of following our past process of recapping, predicting and seeing if our predictions came true, we will make note of difficult words that are presented and workshop them together. This may end up in some additional homework for our students but will better root their understanding of the text.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Students presented their real estate development plans for an ancient Indian civilization. Overall, this was done reasonably well. Students have been sent home with a self and peer evaluation that is to be returned tomorrow completed. This is their chance to share/complain/celebrate/suggest anything that they want about the project. This will be part of their grade and failure to return the evaluation will negatively impact their score.