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Monday, April 20, 2015

Monday, April 20th, 2015

Students completed a Short Write using their "Think & Note" from Chapters 1 & 2 of Parallel Journeys.  Students chose one of two prompts:
A.  How did Hitler gain the support of the youth?
B.  How steps did Hitler take to isolate the Jewish people?

Yale & Harvard peer-edited.  Both the Short Write and Think & Note were collected.  A discussion followed.

Students received a log to record their practice for the NWEA MAP test.  The site was shown & an example practice activity was completed.  Students can use either Compass Learning or the sosa site for activities. Students should be practicing 15 minutes per day.

We  began our poetry unit by reading, discussing and copying "What is Success?" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (page 207 in the Green Literature book);  these were collected.

Drama vocabulary test corrections were collected. (write out the word & definition 5X)
Shakespeare test corrections should be finished by Wednesday.  Write out the question and answer once.


Homework:
Read chapters 3 & 4 of Parallel Journeys; complete a two-sided Think and Note (annotation of the two chapters)
Simple Solutions #71
NWEA practice activity



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