This week will serve as a review for story elements, vocabulary words that we have had thus far and we will finish our novels. Students will complete all activities and rough drafts associated with their short stories read in class.
GPS Standards: http://www.georgiastandards.org/
ELA5R1 (a) (f)
ELA6R1 (e) (d)
ELA7R1 (b)
ANNOUNCEMENT:
October is here and we are ready to start our new class novels, this month we will read TWO novels, one novel I will provide and the other must be purchased. Please have your student’s novel in class by October 3, 2008. If you are having difficulty purchasing your novel, please email me or see me. Please visit the Barnes & Noble either on Moreland (next to the new Target) or Camp Creek, I have called and requested that they order additional books to have adequate inventory for you.
** Indicates the novel that I will provide.
5th grade GIRLS:
** Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains
Heaven by Angela Johnson
5th grade BOYS:
** Guns for General Washington
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac,
6th grade GIRLS:
** Esperanza Rising
Standing Against the Wind, Traci L. Jones
6th grade BOYS:
** Escaping the Giant Wave
Taking Sides by Gary Soto
7th grade GIRLS:
** Journey to Topaz
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
7th grade BOYS:
** Williawaw
Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
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