The week of March 28:

It's the first day of the last quarter! Where has the time gone?? This week we will be working on a Mini Q on The Great Wall of China. Students will read various documents and will have to write a persuasive essay, using the documents as support, to say whether the costs of the Great Wall were worth the benefits. Thursday we will have a field trip and we will be learning about India.

HW- weekly reading report due Wednesday

The week of March 7:

Here's what we did this week in English:

Monday- Read out Loud, Caught Ya, Crispin quiz 101-152, and time to study vocabulary or read.

Tuesday- Silent reading, study vocab., begin adjectives, peer editing for the medieval letter

Wednesday- Read out Loud, Caught Ya, vocabulary quiz, activity with nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Thursday- Quiz over 152-202, silent reading, adjective practice with comparatives and superlatives, and study new vocabulary.

Homework- Reading Crispin, working on the rough draft and final draft of the medieval letter, and studying vocabulary.