MONDAY: Today the students were taken to the Media Center to return, renew, and check out new materials. The next Reading Activity is due November 7th.
While in the Media Center, the students read articles pertaining to the use of animals in medical research. This will be the foundation of our persuasive writing unit. After reading the articles, which were differentiated based on reading ability, the students wrote a summary paragraph.
Also today, the students completed Monday's DGP assignment and were given two new spelling words: calendar and congratulations. There will be a spelling quiz over this week's and last week's words on Friday. The students also took a compound-complex sentence pre-test.
Today's discussion began with the attached slide show. Download Animal-experimentation
