Today in 6A!

ENGLISH: Students wrote their Unit 14 Vocabulary quiz today. This will be graded and returned to students by tomorrow. After their test students gained approval of their pre-writing and began the drafting process. There a select few students who have yet to meet the pre-writing component. I caution these students to not draft until they have mapped out their research and defined how they plan to go about writing this essay. A good plan is the key to a good essay. All students should be at the drafting stage for tomorrow.

LITERATURE: We continued our read of "A Long Walk To Water" and will likely finish the book by the end of this week. This means that next week we will have our Socratic Seminar discussion to assess our learning of this material before we break for Easter. Students will have class time to prepare properly for this discussion.

RELIGION: To prepare students for our lesson I had small groups take 5 minutes to come up with an invention that would make their live easier. All of their inventions had a similarity, that they saved the user valuable time. This is a theme in our lives, making things easier or getting results immediately, however the only area of our lives where the opposite is true is in our pursuit of Jesus. We are not racing to get those results immediately, in fact, we often actively push it back or delay it. We observed the Hebrews as they languished in the desert for forty years in order to see the covenant made with Moses fulfilled.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Our lesson focused on the emergence of democracy in Ancient Greece and how this change impacted their societies. In addition, our lesson explored several other types of leadership and governance which lie in stark contrast to Democracy. Homework for this section is on page 392 #1-7.