• Studylink 10.8 

Read the group's writing from today and vote.

Vote below on the piece you liked the most.


Read the rest of the story here: Leave your comment about the story by signing into voice thread. +1 mojo is you can


Going Forward
You should be thinking about your Social Studies Project and have already planned the date that you will go to your site

For Fun

Challenge
Take a screen shot of your historical fiction blog post h/w from last week and send the image in an email to my PICASA ACCOUNT - I sent you an email with this Picasa email address. Win +2 mojo if you do this before Monday. +1 mojo if you do it on Monday. See example

Bud not Buddy - You were first...pity you didn't have a name on your post! +2
Now... i  can see all your work in one place and you guys can see it too!
Mr. Buxton

Good Reads

Week at a Glance

Watch this video to learn how to set up your good reads account



Student of the Week : Owen Scoring +47 Improvement in M.A.P. scores across x3 tests!

Historical Time Periods

Congratulations on such strong 'improvement' scores as a class. Official results will go home within the next few weeks. Based on my unofficial look at your scores, your improvements were impressive and well above national averages.

Historical Fiction. Your H/W is to finish your historical fiction piece related to today's class. Use this link to do further reading about your  historical time periods.

You should have an image with your paragraph (similar to this post). Your work should be posted on your blog.  You can even try and interpret some of the facts about the historical time period using the Evidence - Verb - Interpretation model.

Test Prep.

Use these links to practice

http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/exercises/punctuation1.html

http://www.chompchomp.com/hotpotatoes/commas01.htm

H/W
Write a paragraph uses evidence from your historical fiction book that shows the time period of your novel