ELA - We will begin our new YA Choice Novels this week. Students are creating reading calendars and will be 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.
Writing - Students will are drafting their Young Author manuscripts in a genre of their choice. Students should have two pages of writing completed by the end of the week. 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 meet in genre writing groups.
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 begin to explore the Jon Burge Reparations Won curriculum this end week focusing on the role and responsibilities of policing as well as The Rights of the Accused.