We hope everyone had a wonderful Fall Break, but your kiddos were missed and we are so grateful to have them back at school.
In language arts, we have been heavily focused and working on persuasive writing this week. Prior to Fall Break, we closely read about Marian Wright Edelman (first African American woman to become a lawyer) and Cesar Chavez (workers' rights activist). This week we have been focused on Marian Wright Edelman's father's quote, "Don't ever let anything get in the way of your education," and formed an opinion about this quote. Students wrote five paragraph opinion papers, giving three reasons why they agree or disagree with the above quote. We focused on conventions (punctuation, capitalization) and organization (strong beginning, three reasons in the middle, and a strong closing). Next week we will continue this genre of writing.
TWO SPECIAL NOTES:
*The library computers used for checkout have not been working this week. The technology department has been working on a fix, but we are still unable to check-in/check-out books. The students are so bummed! This has given them more time to read and stick with the books they already checked out and for those that passed their quizzes, they've been able to borrow from my classroom library.
*The vocabulary test has been moved to NEXT FRIDAY (October 28th) since we've not had as much time this week to practice our vocabulary words.
