Friday, September 19

Thursday, I was absent.

Language Arts worked on vocab packets and reading.

World History watched the Mankind Empires:Rome movie and worked on their review sheets.

Journalism students worked on their inverted pyramid news stories.

Friday:

8th Language Arts:
TP: Good readers infer facts at a complex level while reading.

*Students took the vocab quiz.

*Students submitted pages for million page challenge and reading logs were also checked.

*Students read a short story and looked for contradictions and contrasts. In groups, students compared contradictions and worked at drawing inferences. This activity will continue on Monday.

Homework:

Read

World History:

LT: Identify causes for the fall of Rome.

*We went over the Decline and Fall of Rome questions.

*Students identified what they thought was the biggest reason for the fall of Rome and then wrote about it. These went up around the room and students read them, voting on the three they thought were the best reasons/ explanations.

Homework:

Test on and review sheet due on Monday.

Journalism:

LT: Write an inverted pyramid news story.

*Students peer edited the Jeanay DeMars news story.

*Students fixed DeMars news story.

*Students worked on choice inverted pyramid news story.

Homework:

Final copy Jeanay DeMars due on Monday.

Inverted pyramid news story rough draft due on Tuesday.