Monday, March 3rd

We started the day with this week's vocabulary and daily ELA work.  After that we concluded our analysis of the setting of The Giver and Gathering Blue.  After finding a similarity, we worked together to find text-based evidence about differences between the two.  We completed one together then students worked with one or two partners to identify two more differences.  Then we shared and students filled in the last blank.  

During Social Studies I introduced this term's UOI: How the World Works.  Students worked to come up with a definition and examples of the terms constructive and destructive.  They also had to come up with examples for each.  When they presented their examples, I immediately gave my own example of how their example could fall under the other category.  This term we will continue to go beyond simply identifying terms and saying whether things are "good" or "bad."  Moving forward, events, people, and actions will be analyzed to determine if they are constructive, destructive, or (in most cases) both.