ELA and Reading Update

Good Morning,

Just a few reminders:

• Our 80's dance is on Friday, January 23rd.  Students will not be allowed to stay without a permission slip and $2.  
• Unless we have a snow day between now and then, Monday, February 16 will serve as a winter break for both students and teachers.

Reading:

In reading, we will begin working on identifying information within an informational text (maps, ads, recipes, memos, etc.)  We will have a SUMMATIVE test over this material on Friday, January 30th.  Here is a link for our roots this week.  We will test over these roots on Wednesday, January 28th.

http://quizlet.com/67128054/spec-flash-cards/

We will also begin a new read aloud in a few weeks.  We will be reading Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop. This story goes along with what students will be studying in SS with Mrs. Edenfield.  Here is a brief summary:

At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.

I will be reading this story to the students, but if they want to purchase their own copy to follow along here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Counting-Grace-Elizabeth-Winthrop/dp/0553487833

ELA:

In ELA, we are working on creating and identifying dependent and independent clauses within sentences.  We are also working on how to answer a constructed response based on the reading we have just done.  

As always, if you have any questions please send me am email.  Have a great week!

~Samantha Kimbell