ELA - We will complete our Choice Novels this week. Students are running book club discussions focusing on Chapter Summaries and developing strong discussion questions, Annotations and adding a music selection for our Novel Playlist for each chapter. Students will be writing a literary essay for their final novel assessment and will be working on creating a thesis and planning their essays.
Writing - Students complete their Young Author manuscripts in a genre of their choice. All manuscripts will be short stories (5 pages), fiction, essays, non-fiction articles, and/or poetry. Final manuscripts are due 4/30/2021. Students will receive feedback from a writing partner and the teacher to revise and edit their final drafts.
Optional Assignment: Students can win $500.
American Writers Museum Student Contest Prompt - Writers and their work have been part of massive changes in our history. From Alexander Hamilton to Ida B. Wells, writers' works have a huge impact on how people see the world. For this contest we ask students how they would use writing to create change they want to see in the world, and explore it in any form of writing that works for them: an essay, a short story, a poem, a play, a song, just so long as it is between 200 and 1000 words.
Civics - We will complete our exploration of the Jon Burge Reparations Won curriculum. Students will be taking part in a Town Hall Meeting as a final assessment. We will begin the Facing History and Ourselves, Choices in Little Rock curriculum.