Monday, November 17, 2008

Mag Monday

What We Did in Class Today...

Language Arts
:

Writing -
We reworked our theses by viewing examples of other essays and freewriting

Reading - We read and analyzed The Watson's Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.


Social Studies
- We continued our study of the geography and topography of Ancient Egypt, Kush, and Canaan.

Homework

Language Arts

1. Read 20 minutes. Post your reading to the reading log on http://56reading.wikispaces.com/

2. R&E #2 - Due the week of December 1.

3. Memory Narrative. Rough draft must be emailed to Mr. Joe by Tuesday November 18th. Students received the rubric in class. They may use or combine existing narrative chunks they've already written or write a new ones.



Social Studies

Current Events Week 2'ers. Post to Moodle by Wednesday November 19. Responses by November 21. Ask your student for details. The assignment is clearly explained on Moodle.

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