Week 13: Finishing Up the Novel Unit

Whew! This was such a busy week with Halloween, a PLC day and the trimester ending! However, we made great progress in novels and started the film "The Good Lie". We also had excellent practice pulling evidence from text and media.

I'm excited for this week as we wrap up both the film and Honor's novel "Wednesday Wars". The final project for all students is a short writing piece about how characters demonstrated courage. This will give good writing practice, finding text evidence and synthesis.

Congrats to the winning table teams (I'll have pictures next week) who earned the most points by working together! They'll be able to have a party of their choosing this week. Way to go everyone:)

Please keep reading at home! Remember 10 books are due this trimester and 12 books for Honors. It's better to stay on track and not fall behind. If you want to reach the 40 Club, keep on reading!

Here is the schedule for next week, please let me know if you have questions or concerns as we move to a new trimester.

Week 13

November 9-November 13th

Monday, November 9th
Genre-of-the-Week: Humor
New Class Jobs
Prefix of the Week: Hyper--
Finish Text Evidence paper
The Good Lie
The Wednesday Wars: Honors

Tuesday, November 10th
The Good Lie
The Wednesday Wars: Honors
New Seating 

Wednesday, November 11th
Finish both film and novel
Review citations/text evidence

Thursday, November 12th
Final Project: Essay in Utah Compose
on Courage 

Friday, November 13th
Finish Essays
Free Reading
Newspaper Day: Honors

Book #1 DUE

Halloween Fun!