Students have written literary essays individually based on a short story read in class. The essays were five paragraph essays with the following format: opening paragraph containing a summary of short story and a claim/thesis about the protagonist’s main character trait, three body paragraphs and a conclusion paragraph starting to hint at the lesson learned in the story. The opening paragraph’s claim states the reasons/ideas/evidence that is shown in the text.

After their individual literary essays were completed, the students got together with their writing partner. We focused on lessons learned/theme across two of the short stories. With their writing partner, they are creating an introduction paragraph that includes a summary of both short stories and a claim/thesis statement. They then will create three topic sentences for their body paragraphs (again showing evidence of backing up their claim).  On a tri-fold piece of paper, they will write their topic sentences and create a visual showing the evidence from the text, in place of writing out the rest of the body paragraph. The back of this paper will include their opening and conclusion paragraphs. 

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz 12/4/17

Math: R & P 3.2.4 #128-132 pg 155

Science: Corrections due Friday AND Reading Log due Friday for November- 400 reading minutes and parent signature