Week 18: December 8-12

What a great week! Students worked diligently over the past two days on an on-demand argumentative essay. This is the best kind of preparation for the SAGE, and for good writing in general. Students have learned 2 organizational foldables that will assist them in their writing. We will continue these types of 2-day writing exercises that will mimic end-of-level testing situations.
Honor Choir was absent today, so they will need to finish at home as will other students who did not finish in class. Here are some documents to help and they can always email me this weekend:

Miley Cyrus Rubric and Instruction for Handing-In

Foldable #1: Organizing the Evidence from the articles.

Foldable #2: Organizing the Essay

Remember to keep reading at home! Home reading is 30 mins. at least 5 days a week. Book #4 in the iRead program will be due this week. If I don't see students on schedule, I'll be calling home this week and figuring out what the disconnect is.

Next week will be a Superhero-based Argumentation project, it will be a fun, engaging work to practice argumentation. Additionally, we will be doing reading benchmark testing on Thursday, December 9th and Friday, December 10th. Please make sure your student is well-rested and prepared to test. I'm so proud of the hard work I see and the excellent attitudes the students have. It is certainly a pleasure to be their teacher.

Yoda has been giving us clues about next week's unit.

Book orders are due on December 10th either online or bring in a check or cash. The link to ordering is on the side of the blog. If you want me to wrap the books for you because they are a present for your student, I'd be happy to. Just let me know ahead of time.

Thank you for the ongoing support. I can be reached at rachel.robins@washk12.org or at 435-652-4742. Have a wonderful week!

A HUGE congrats to Luke B. and Hallie V. for reading 40 books in the iRead program and becoming the newest members of our 40 Club. Woot!!

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to present Friday, December 12th

2nd: Emily B., Sophie C., Luke B.

3rd: Sage D., Monte E., Dylan E.

4th: David B., Kaden C., Joshua C.

5th: Keegan A., Christine C., Alexis C.

6th: Chris C., Mike C., Seth C. *Torrance

Week 18 Schedule

Monday, December 8th

Free Reading *Book #4 Due

Miley Cyrus Essay Due (if you didn't finish in class) 

Introduction to Super Hero Argumentation Unit

Vocabulary/Information Sheet

Tuesday, December 9th 

Free Reading

Essay Modeling

Wednesday, December 10th

Free Reading

Superhero Essay Organization

Book Orders Due Today

Thursday, December 11th

Reading Benchmark Testing in B-Lab

Friday, December 12th

Reading Benchmark Testing in B-Lab

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