Wednesday, November 13th

I taught a brief lesson about dialogue and how it should be used within a story.  Afterwards, I wrote a sentence from my story that TELLS and then modeled how to SHOW the same information.

Tell:  We were eating dinner and then we noticed that Tiger was missing.

Show: "Have you guys seen Tiger?" I mentioned in between mouthfuls of food, "he's never missing at mealtime."
"Yeah," Gabby said while glaring at Isaiah, "he's usually next to THAT one waiting for food to drop."
Isaiah exclaimed, "Hey! That's not nice Gabby."

We continued working on our memoirs and students were able to practice a few lines during the Literary Cafe practice this afternoon.   The memoirs are due on Tuesday, November 19th and Literary Cafe is on Wednesday, November 20th.  With the remaining time we read more of the The Giver and students finished their Cattle Trails maps.

Tomorrow students will begin studying the Trail of Tears.  They will analyze and take notes on a variety of sources.  They will then use the notes to write a short essay response and they will work on a 3D Trail of Tears map.