Mid-Week Update

This week we have been focusing on verbs during grammar time.  Students are working on identifying and understanding how to use action, linking, and helping verbs.  They are still having some difficulty determining the difference between helping and linking verbs; however, we are going to continue practicing.  The vocabulary test is tomorrow and students spent some time today during silent reading time to study with QUIZLET.

We completed our analysis of the setting in The Giver and we are starting to gather evidence about whether the community is a utopia or dystopia.  Lastly, students continued working on their narratives.  Yesterday we discussed "atmosphere" and students  sketched the important plot points in their personal narratives.

Graded work was sent home yesterday and today.  I threw some ELA and Social Studies work in with Ms. McFaddin's Math and Science work so please look for the packet.  For your reference, the Civil War assessment still has the original grades on them but I did change them in my grade book.