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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 Monday. He could have very little involvement in the work. I tried to take up his slack. Anyway, I’ll do a better job!
Fourth and fifth period students need to get by The Learning Tree sometime this week and purchase a copy of Karen Hesse’s Letters From Rifka. We will start the book on October 17th. This is later than I had planned, but it will still be a GREAT connection to their study of immigration in Social Studies. It will also allow us to study another genre of literature, historical fiction.
First, third and seventh period will also look at historical fiction. We will begin with The Journey to Ellis Island and move on to The Memory Coat.
I changed the background to candy in honor of Halloween!!!!!