What's happening in class?

The week of December 5th through December 9th will be another busy one!

In L.A., students will be writing their first persuasive essay of the year!  This will be a unique assignment in that parents will be playing an important role in this assignment.  Each student will be coming up with a topic connected to persuading their parents to allow them to have a certain item, a certain privilege, or to do a certain task.  In turn, parents will be coming up with arguments against the request, so that students can practice counter arguing.  This should be an interesting, challenging assignment with a twist of fun.  Of course parents will be presented with the finished essay.  The decision to agree or not agree to the request will be completely up to them! :)  The week's focus will be on brainstorming ideas, gathering arguments, and organizing their essay format.

In reading, we will continue to read and discuss The Cay.  Students will be reading chapter 4 this week, playing a review game covering chapters 1-4, and taking their first quiz on Wednesday.  Chapters 5 & 6 will also be covered before the end of the week.  In the novel, Phillip is stranded on a remote iland and must learn to survive, while overcoming a prejudice ingrained in him by his mother..............Stay tuned to see how he manages...............

***Book reports will be explained this week, and due before Christmas vacation.