Ms. Faircloth

Today periods 3 and 5 worked on the article and close reading questions for "Working Life". Period 7 rewrote the answers for "Life in America" if students didn't earn an A or B on the assignment. The steps: Read article once Read questions Re-read article, highlighting and annotating Write answers using complete sentences, evidence from the article, and restating the question as a topic sentence.

Today students focused on their first choice of a research topic from the collections they scanned yesterday. Today they actually began taking notes about what they found - tracking their sources on a page, giving each source a number. They needed to keep track of which sources they got which notes from.

Today students finished the questions about the non-fiction text " No Place For Jews ". Then we continued reading in Uprising. ( We are reading the section from pp. 44-69.)

Today we finished reading through page 43 in Uprising . Then students read the non-fiction text " No Place For Jews " and the Close Reading Questions . We will finish these tomorrow at the beginning of the period.

Today students worked on getting a "birds eye view" of a variety of possible research topics. They chose a few sources in each collection for 6th grade ELA on the library website, and read/watched the source. The goal is to narrow their interest down to one (or maybe two) topics that they will get into more deeply tomorrow, taking notes. NOTE - if the link doesn't take you to a group of collections specifically on the MMS library site, you will need to go to the library site, choose "catalog" and then the "catalog" tab specifically. Then choose Destiny Discover on the left side, then collections. You may also be able to search for "Faircloth" in the search field and it should pull up the 6 collections we created for 6th grade.

Today we started reading Uprising. Students also worked on their Character Graphic Organizer as we finished each chapter about a new character.

Today students worked on non-fiction text " The Land That Time Forgot ", about Italy and migration to the US at the turn of the 20th century. Then students answered Close Reading questions about the text