Mon Nov 25th

10s - complete 4 connections to Animal Farm Chapter 9 for next class, READ (your independent novel project is coming soon)

9s - as per Ms. Smirfitt - students completed paragraph about Teen Voice in class today

Nov 22nd

My apologies, I haven't been keeping up.

10s - today we went through how to utilize different sentence patterns to make your writing more interesting to read.  We practiced sentence combining and students need to rewrite a choppy sentence for next day.  We discussed some key ideas for Chapter 8 and shared with each other key ideas.
Students are also asked to write a response to "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men are almost always bad men."  Lord Acton

HOMEWORK: rewrite choppy paragraph, respond to power corrupts quote, READ

9s - as per Ms. Smirfitt

HOMEWORK: READ

Nov 8th

10s-  we spent today focusing on making inferences and recapping the essential pieces of Ch. 5.

Homework: READ!!! ***if you have not been keeping up with your Animal Farm work, time to get caught up

9s - today Ms. Smirfitt taught the class - a guided reading that focused on making connections of an article about screen time.

Homework: bring in all your Media Log drafts/work: ML #1 Ad Observation, ML#2 Screen Time Diary + response notes, ML #3 Teen Misrepresentation, ML#4 Still Killing Us Softly response.