Students will be completing our recent unit on the Oklahoma Land Rush and be tested with various writing and multiple choice question quizzes. Daily activities will be posted on Edmodo each Monday through Thursday.
Students are learning new and independent ways to analyze and process text articles. This is a slight instructional change from my previous teacher led strategies. At the start of this next semester, the focus is more on the students to take responsibility for their learning. I will continue to guide and model students through these provided activities in order to learn how to take more ownership of their learning process. With the national emphasis on states testing in our schools, we may be overly providing students with reading activities in order to successfully answer questions, rather than encourage students to read for enjoyment, stimulate their natural curiosity and love for reading/writing.
Please see that your student is keeping up with their Edmodo homework assignments.
Students will be learning various test-taking lessons designed to practice thinking and writing critically each week.
Students will soon begin reading our next novel, Thinking Differently, Steve Jobs, in class, with daily follow-up activities posted on Edmodo each Monday through Thursday.
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