During the month of October, students explored the use of figurative language and dialect in Roald Dahl’s classic novel, The Witches.  They also learned text features of the drama genre and are “showing what they know” by writing a script for an emergency news broadcast.  These news broadcasts will be filmed and edited and viewed in class as the final project for the Witches novel.

In geography, students are wrapping up their unit on climate and land forms by planning a trip that would allow them to visit ten different land forms/water features and writing a fictional journal about what they saw.  Their journal can be a traditional written journal or it can take the form of a “vlog,” video log, or they can put their information into a Powerpoint presentation/prezi.  An example of one day of the trip might look like the following:

10/29/16  Today I visited the Grand Canyon! It looked like the whole Earth had been split open and the wound was a mile deep and many miles long. Layer upon layer of colorful rock could be seen all the way to the bottom of the canyon. The landscape was dry and baked- probably because it’s in a desert climate.

The travel journal/vlog/Powerpoint is due on Friday, 11/4.

Student’s first book review is due Friday 11/4.  Students can take a book review form anytime in class, or you can check you email for an electronic version of the form which was sent on September 16.