Tuesday, September 16

8th Language Arts:
TP: Readers push themselves to high levels of thinking.
*Talked about higher level thinking when reading 
*We did an IRA and students wrote responses to questions asked.
*Students created an ending to the short story we read.
Homework:
Vocab 
Read 140 mins/week

World History:
LT: Understand the history, teachings and beliefs of Christianity
*We talked about Christianity today.
*Students compared Christianity and Judaism.
*Students read about the causes of the fall of Rome.
Homework:
Chapter 5, Section 5: Complete causes of fall of Rome chart (list military, social, political and economic causes).

Journalism:
LT: Write an inverted pyramid article.
*We talked about direct, indirect and partial quotations today.
*Students worked on inverted pyramid rough drafts and also checked their leads.
Homework:
Rough draft due on Wednesday.