Week One was a SUCCESS!

Students have finished week one of school and they are exhausted!

We’ve had some great discussions and learned some new, very important skills and procedures.

This week, students learned to format their DEAR Notebooks. This is where students will take notes on their grammar lessons, and have opportunities to practice and ask questions to the teacher.  If you want to help your student stay organized, here are some tips below:

 

 

Additionally, in preparation for our first quarter literature selection, Night by Elie Wiesel, students are beginning to discuss important social topics that impact us all, here in the United States and all over the world. We started by defining and discussing the idea of genocide and its stages. If you are interested, you can read about it here: Genocide.

Our final activity of the week was discussing the expectations for annotation and summary. When students interact actively with a text, they are able to understand the text better and get more from it. Here are the symbols we will use for the remainder of the school year:

Finally, we learned the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing, in anticipation of learning how to write clear, objective summaries in the future, to capture the real main ideas of a text.

Overall, students performed very well and seem to be ready to get back to work. We are so excited for this school year and all of the adventures it will bring!