- We will be taking the WrAP tomorrow and Wednesday at 8:15. Tomorrow night, once students have seen the prompt, planned with an outline and written their first, they may discuss the prompt with you. You may help them flush out their ideas and make sure they are well-developed. However, they may not bring anything written to or from school. They
- All-School Closing Chapel is on Friday morning.
- Next Monday are the end-of-year conferences. Students should plan to attend these conferences.
- Next Tuesday is our Civil War field trip to the Booth Museum. We will be gone from about 9:15 - 2:00.
- Our math test for units 10, 11 & 12 is on Friday. I will send home a study guide tomorrow. There will be a review tutorial on Thursday.
- The end-of-year math assessment is next Wednesday and Thursday. I will send home a review packet after the test this Friday.
- We are staring an exciting new cross curricular unit on the Civil War. Students will choose a topic from the War, anything from women's roles to a particular battle, to life on the home front. They will spend the next two weeks researching their chosen topic, read books and using the internet to gather as much information as possible. They will then use all the skills that we've been learning this year to write a report on their topic. They will also have the opportunity to create a model of their topic. For example; they may wish to make a diarama of a battle or a compare and contrast drawing of the uniforms of a Confederate vs. a Union soldier. This is a very fun and hands on project. The written reports will be created at school; however, the craft projects should be created at home. I will send home a separate email later this week with more specific information on the project.
While the students are studying their chosen topics, I will be continuing to teach social studies lessons on all aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This week, we will focus on the Lincoln's election in 1860 and John Brown's raid. Most historians consider these two events the "straw that broke the camel's back", so to speak, plunging us into civil war.