Friday, March 14, 2008

LAST DAY OF 3rd NINE WEEKS!

Mr. D wishes you a super, wonderful, awesome, spectacular, memorable, excellent, incredible, unforgettable, nice, great, fantastic, fun Spring Break. This is your LAST SPRING BREAK of your middle school career. Have fun. Be safe. Don't do anything I wouldn't do.... I love you!



HISTORY CLASS

"Opposing Slavery" (Chp. 15.2)

Objectives for Today
  • You will be able to explain how the antislavery movement began and grew.
  • You will describe how the Underground Railroad helped slaves reach freedom.
  • You will be able to discuss why many white northerners and southerns opposed the campaign to abolish slavery.

Agenda for Today

  1. Bellringer: Draw a picture of a cotton gin. If you don't know what it is, look it up in your book and then draw what you think it would look like.
  2. You will work on a crossword puzzle that will review the information we covered in class yesterday. This will serve as a test grade for this section!

READING CLASS

Core Reading Skill #9: Understanding Plot

Objectives for Today

  • You will analyze the development of plot in a narrative text.
  • You will recognize the basic situation of central conflict, the events or complications related to the central conflict, the climax, and the resolution.
  • You will know how cause-and-effect relation ships affect the plot.
  • You will understand where and when a story takes place, and trace the author's development of time and sequence.

Agenda for Today

  1. You will come in and finish this week's Readers Workshop.

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