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Monday, March 24, 2014

Language Arts 3-24-14

Princeton:
   Today we took our performance assessments on Thirteen Reasons Why.  We wrote our letters to Hannah using the graphic organizers or think and notes we prepared over the weekend.  We took an objective test on the novel.  We worked on our team project.  We handed in our Guided Reading #4 and published poems (significant male in our lives and acrostic).
Homework:
Complete team job (summary & illustration on index cards or paper)
Simple Solutions #61

Yale:
  We handed in our published poems and Current Events on the Malaysian missing plane.  We conducted a Socratic discussion on our novel on "truth" and "ironies."  We began our unit on drama and Shakespeare by taking notes on our Enduring Understandings.
Homework:
SS #61
clean folder, organize papers in portfolio, make sure flash cards are in order

Harvard:
  We began our unit on drama and Shakespeare by taking notes on our Enduring Understandings.   We began our notes on Drama.  We discussed and handed in our current event on the Malaysian airplane.
We worked in literature circles on our novels.
Homework:
finish novels (Guys -- charts on characters & vocab; begin researching team-assigned topics on Afghanistan)
(Gals -- finish Guided Reading sheet on Chapters 17-21)
SS #61


www.roadtogrammar.com (Quizzes #1 due today)
(Quizzes #2 will be assigned tomorrow due next Monday)

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