Monday, March 10th - Students will complete the final day of MSA testing in the morning. In the afternoon, my classes will finish viewing Gifted Hands as they compare and contrast the book and the film version using a Venn diagram. If time remains, students will review Parts of Speech by completing two activities.
Tuesday, March 11th - Finally, we will return to some normalcy with a new Word Wizard List! Students will receive Word Wizard List 14 in class. The homework will be due on Friday, March 14th. Word Wizard 14 Quiz will be on Friday, March 14th as well. After Word Wizard, we will begin reading the play, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Wednesday, March 12th through Thursday, March 13th - We will finish reading The Hound of the Baskervilles.Students will be focusing on the following essential question: Why is it important to investigate who we are? In addition, students will be taking notes and answering questions at the end of each act in order to identify multiple pieces of evidence to suggest logically what might be true about characters. In addition, students will continue to build on their prior knowledge from The Monsters are Due on Maple Street by continuing to identify and examine elements of dramatic structure.
Friday, March 14th - We will play a review game and then complete the Word Wizard 14 Quiz.Word Wizard 14 Homework will be collected at the beginning of class!