If you didn't finish your Figurative Language Analysis paragraph in class today, you should log into your email & the Google Classroom and finish that over the weekend.
Here's what's coming up next week:
Friday is a Professional Development day, so students don't have school. That means that Monday is a full schedule day - Students dismissed at 2:42.
Reading -
* Don't forget - Week 4 Reading Logs are due Monday, December 4.
* One Page Book Report #2 - Due December 15th
This week we'll looking for details in our text that relate to the theme or central idea in a story titled, "Lectures on How You Never Lived Back Home" by M. Evelina Galang. The story is written from the perspective of the child of immigrant parents who has grown up in America, and how she grows up caught between the expectations her parents grew up back home in the Philippines versus the expectations placed on her in the American culture she is growing up in.
Writing -
We'll be continuing word work and journal writing. The week's journal prompts will be closely tied to the themes how we our families and upbringing influence who we are.
Independent Reading:
Reading Log - due Mondays. Students are required to complete at least 150 minutes of Independent Reading each week with parent & teacher signatures for their reading times. Logs are due each Monday. Since we are studying fiction, Independent Reading books should be novels, stories or biographies (including graphic novels) - books that tell a story, have plot, and develop characters, so that we can practice the skills we are developing in class.
Listening to E-books on Overdrive can also count towards Independent Reading for reading logs. Students with a Madison Public Library card can also link their Library Card to Overdrive for access for even more books.
Students should have a book/E-book for class each day, either from home or from the library.
Social Studies -
We are still studying Chapter 6 - The 4 Empires of Mesopotamia. Between 2300 BCE and 539 BCE the independent city-states of ancient Sumer were conquered and united under different Empires. An Empire is when multiple cities, nations or peoples over a large territory are united under a single leader.
So far we have Sargon the Great and the Akkadian Empire, and The Baylonian Empire and Hammurabi's Code of Laws.
Next week we'll be studying the Assyrian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
We should also be starting a project where you will select one of the empires and design a poster that celebrates the achievements of that empire.
Each of these empires achieved power through different important achievements that allowed for the control of vast numbers of people spread over a larger territory.