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After finishing our writing unit, we've started a reading comprehension unit.  In this unit, students will enhance their reading comprehension of short fiction and non-fiction texts.  So far, we have reviewed the "Big 6" reading comprehension strategies (visualizing, connecting, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and synthesizing).  Today, we learned how to do our first Article of the Week!  This is a very important transitional skill for high school.  Students will have time to work on their Article of the Week tomorrow - the due date is Friday.

Once again, we had a very productive week in ELA class!  This week we switched gears from "reading like a writer" and exploring mentor texts, to beginning to journey on the writing process ourselves.  Students chose the topics for their snapshot moments and have begun to use a graphic organizer for prewriting.  Tomorrow, we will upload our first assignment to Teams!  

Hi everyone!  We have had a wonderful first week back with our soft launch to the school year.  In ELA, we have been focusing on learning how to use our writers notebooks and experimenting with word play through the creation of an illustrated 6 word memoir.  Don't forget that if you did not finish your memoir on Friday, it is due for homework!  This week, we will begin to weave in some academic baseline skills activities to help us see where our students currently are on our middle school reading and writing continuums.  This data will help us to identify our students' learning strengths and gaps, further aiding us in the planning of group and individual activities moving forward.

Social Studies Writing Option:

It looks like the travel within NB will be our only option for a while. Search Tourism NB’s website and choose a place that you would like to visit and write about it. Explain why you chose it, how long it would take to get there and who would you like to travel with.

I've noticed through my calls home that many students are watching The Outer Banks on Netflix, and one of my students said that there were major connections to The Outsiders.  So I just had to watch it at this point!  And I have to say that there are definitely many connections to The Outsiders.  If you are watching The Outer Banks, I would love to hear the connections that you are finding between the show and the novel.  I'll give you one example: note the similarities between the characters of Randy in the novel and Topper on the show.

Hi everyone!

I am really enjoying reading about all of your unique persuasive essay topics!  Now that we have organized our thoughts and wrote an introduction, we will move into the next phase of writing - the body paragraphs.  There are some important lessons we need to talk about with regards to the body, specifically what an effective body paragraph looks like and how to properly use words from our research in our writing.  We want to include the important information in our research, but we need to ensure that we do not steal it.  So how do we do that?  Two ways - paraphrasing and direct quotes.  We will learn about both of those this week.

I can't wait to read your writing this week!

Mrs. Cabel