Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Language Arts 5-7-14

Journal entry:
    stereotyping, discrimination, bias, segregation (define in your own words)  
    How do we stop it?
     (we read and discussed an article about Eboo Patel and his experience with friends of different faiths in high school)
 
We corrected Simple Solutions #73.  Be able to explain what a gerund is.

In pairs, we examined a piece of propaganda from the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany.  We shared out findings as we connected each with a technique that we learned.

Papers were returned. Get binders signed tonight.

Homework:
Princeton:  finish reading 56-65 (chapter 4) complete a Memoir Box
Harvard & Yale: Read chapters 11 & 12; two Memoir Boxes

ALL: Simple Solutions Lesson 74

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