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Good luck to our 8th grade students participating in the Illinois History Day Competition!
Welcome to the 4th Quarter of Hybrid/Remote Learning! Remember to complete the CPS Health Screener before coming to school @https://chicagopsprod.service-now.com/health
ELA - We will continue 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. They have created calendars/assigned chapter lists to guide this work.
Writing - Students are continuing to draft their Young Author manuscripts in a genre of their choice. Students should have three 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 to share something that is going well/something that they need help with.
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 continue to explore the Jon Burge Reparations Won curriculum this end week focusing on the response of the community to these events. Next week, students will be writing an Op Ed as a final assessment.