Language6

No, I wasn’t captured by aliens. 
Each student has a Reading Response Journal that they are to write on nightly for the remainder of the week.  Their historical fiction AR book is due on Wednesday, November 1. 
Fourth and fifth are reading Letters from Rifka. The other classes are reading Journey to America and Memory Coat.  This [...]

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We are starting our study of historical fiction.  All classes will read a historical fiction novel that should be finished Wednesday, November 1.  I want each student to read a minimum of 10 pages a day in the book.  Historical fiction can be more difficult to read than realisitc fiction, so if they need to [...]

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Seventh period needs to finish their acrostic on one of the characters from Belle Prater’s Boy and the back of a worksheet on characterization.
Fifth period has ex. 1 and 2 for the lesson 2 spelling/vocabulary words.
Students in fourth and fifth period were introduced to the author Edgar Allan Poe today. 

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I apologize for not writing frequently last week. If you have a child at Austin, you know it was homecoming week. My son, Kirk, is the junior class president. We had a float to build. That was not the problem. The problem was that he was diagnosed with mono on [...]

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All classes will have a major test on Friday.  It will cover the four kinds of sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, compound sentences, complete subjects, complete predicates, capitalization and punctuation of sentences, and context clues.
Fourth and fifth period classes will also have a spelling/vocabulary test this week.  Fourth periods test is Tuesday.  Fifth period will have [...]

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