Monday, October 21st

ELA/SS -- Ms. Smith introduced this week's project.  Students will research different perspectives of different groups of people who lived during the Reconstruction Era.  Students will have class time this week to work on their projects and I recommend that students also work on them at home if they fall behind the suggested schedule:

Monday-Tuesday --> Research, note-taking

Wednesday --> Write the reflection

Thursday-Friday --> Assemble project

Ms. Smith also led a Reconstruction Simulation where students learned about the sharecropping debt cycle.  After the simulation students compared sharecropping to slavery and reflected on the similarities and differences.

We also had our author visit today and it was FABULOUS!