With the late start today our whole schedule was all wacky: super short morning classes, and close to normal length afternoon classes. The Newton homeroom was behind the Arbour's in LA so we used LA class and WIN today to get caught up on our summaries. Both homerooms had read aloud- which they all seem to be really enjoying. I also spoke with both classes about making sure they start their IXL homework- many students haven't started any of it yet- and we have a quiz Friday. I can't help them if they struggle, if they don't even start it until Thursday night. We also had a discussion about not wanting to dig a hole they can't get out of in terms of missing/redo work.
In Social Studies the Arbour homeroom was able to catch up to the Newtons. We finished our notes on New Netherlands and then began talking about how we are going to move into the study of the 13 Colonies...and how we are going to break them up by region, always beginning each region with learning about their geography- because everything comes back to geography and the question: How does where you live, impact how you live? I informed the kids that at the end of the Colonial Times unit they will all be writing a persuasive essay about which colonial region was the best. We will be keeping this essay in mind throughout our unit and organizing our notes in such a way that it will help us when it comes time to start writing. Homework: IXL AA1-5, book talk (presentations start next week!)
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