1. Extended response due Monday, March 15.
How do you connect with the characters in the story? Do you identify with one character? How? Do you identify with the problem of the character? How would you solve the problem of the character?
2. Complete AR tests and mystery novel exams in class.
3. Preview/ Research..... The next unit is Futuristics and Science Fiction.
Start researching future communication, education, transportation, fuel sources, space vehicles, and how business will be conducted in the distant future. Students will research in the library during class as well as read the novel, The White Mountains, by John Christopher.
4. READ.
5. For the March 22 reading response. Create a "book jacket." Sell a favorite book or mystery novel by drawing, sketching, photographs, clip art, etc. Include the summary for the inside of the "jacket." You may be creative.... Find an old jacket or take large paper and create a " jacket" , covering it with artifacts from the story. "Sell" the ( reading of the) book to your classmates.
Reminder: The Biography report for Women in History Month is due April 23. Pick up a copy of the "Challenges in Life" critical thinking sheet for this project. :)
