Thursday, April 14, 2011

Myth research & Journalism and Middle East

6th: Today we began class with conjunction practice. Then, we watched conjunction junction to figure out exactly what a conjunction does and make a list of all of the conjunctions we heard. From there, we began our myth research. We made a KWL chart and looked at the articles and atlases Ms. D. gave us to write down everything we knew about our topic in terms of Geography, History and People. Then, we wrote down our research questions in the W(ant to know) column and prepared ourselves to conduct more research tomorrow.
Homework: Remember, bookmark is due tomorrow!

7th: Today we began class by writing thank you notes to VOX who visited yesterday. Then, we came back to our journalism projects- we broke off into groups and shared one of our articles and then facilitated a small group discussion about the article. Afterward, we had a whole class discussion about what we had learned about journalism from this project. From there, we began to investigate the Middle East, the region which we'll be exploring as journalists. We will finish up our Middle East GEOG tomorrow!
Homework: Letter to the editor- VOX story. Bookmark due tomorrow!

***PARENTS, WANT TO CHAPERONE OUR TRIP TO THE CHINESE GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBAT PERFORMANCE ON MONDAY, APRIL 18TH? We need chaperones! Email Ms. D. at cdevine@atlantachartermiddle.com!

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