March 30 - April 3

This week:

Reading Logs due Friday
Continue reading "The Clay Marble"
Finish SBA Practice Test

Students should be reading a book at home. This quarter's book project will be a book talk the week of April 20th. Details coming soon.

Week of March 23-27

Reading logs due Friday! All students must have a book they are reading at home. Students should have shown Ms. Sween their book. Students need to finish reading a book in order to do a book talk the week of April 20th. The book talk will be this quarter's project.

This week in literature:
We will complete the practice SBA (standards-based assessment) test.
We will begin reading the book The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho. This book will be read in class. It is about a young girl living in a Cambodian refugee camp in 1985.

Week of March 16-20

This week in literature we will finish reading the play "Twelve Angry Men" and then watch the 1950s movie version of the play.

No reading logs required this week. However, students need to be finding a book to read this quarter. They will be given time in the library. All students must check out a book from the library or bring one from home and show me by Friday.

There will be a book project this quarter on a book of their choice - any genre. Details coming next week.

Week of March 2-6

Wednesday all students need to be prepared to recite "The Road Not Taken" by memory.
Also this week we will be reading and discussing the play "Twelve Angry Men" aloud in class.

Students who did not turn in their book project last Friday can still turn them in this week. They will lose 10% of points each day late. This is a 100 point project.

Reading logs are not required this week. Students can turn in a reading log for 20 extra credit points.