Language Arts Week of 10/8 to 10/12

READING
    The Hunger Games:
Test on Part I and the vocab on Friday, October 12th.
Read chapters 10 and 11, do one three-step and one job for Friday.
"Let the Games begin!!"

    Journals were graded this week.  Keep up daily; finish at home if you don't finish during class.

WRITING:
    We're writing a draft of a 5 paragraph letter home as if we were a settler who headed west on the Oregon Trail -- draft due Thursday,  final due Tuesday.
 
    Current event weekend (get an article from the newspaper or internet); construct the summarizing technique: Who, What, etc. (see your instruction sheet)

    Test on nouns and verbs, and the parts of speech on Thursday, October 11th.

    Simple Solutions: Units 3 and 4 due Tuesday.