Thursday

We started with a game of sproutball in the gym. Thank you Mrs. Pless for getting this organized.

At our team meeting we discussed the importance of grown mindset and positivity. This will help us get happily and productively through our work.

In writing workshop, the focus was coming up with a focus. We talked about several different ways to focus our informational essay on teen activism. Students free wrote and then went to read some, jot some (notes), write some. Tomorrow we will try to flash draft a whole essay in class!

In social studies we worked on finding sources for our National History Day Project. Here are the initial steps (not in order necessarily)
1. ON YWP Post your topic, how it fits the theme of Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History and make a claim.
2. Find a book source
3. Find web sources
4. Create a source page (like the text set we have for teen activism - more on this later)
5. Start website on Weebly (change your practice site to your NHD site)
6. Read widely
6. Take notes quickly
7. Free write

Tonight's homework:
Math - 2 sheets multiply fractions word problems work for 20 minutes
LA work for 20 more minutes on your NHD project - any of the above steps
Read for 20-30 minutes