Today we practiced finding relevant evidence by doing a murder mystery called “Slip or Trip?”. The students gather evidence like detectives would using the information from a story and a picture and then decided if the witness was lying or telling the truth based on the information we are given. We created a chart that collected our evidence and reasons why we thought that evidence was important and then used it to write a CER paragraph on whether the witness was lying or not.

For writer’s workshop yesterday we began our first CER using textual evidence. This was about the main point of view the author writes “Eleven” in. The sentence stems and story link are posted below and are due Monday:

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You will find the story here:  https://my.ccsd.net/userdocs/documents/qP2lEuWcYaAQAtMW.pdf

One-Pager #1 and #2 are due at the end of the month (October 26th). Each student should have at least ONE full novel read by this point in the year and should be currently reading their 2nd book if they are to finish their One-Pagers on time. These are 20 points summative each and will impact their grade tremendously if not turned in. Please make sure you are not waiting until the last day to complete these, they will take more than an evening to complete.

Have a great weekend!

Homework:

• “Eleven” Point of View CER – due by Monday
• Read 100 minutes this week!! (whenever it fits into your busy schedule! Just make sure it totals 100 minutes)
• Read Theory – 5 more quizzes passed by Sunday!
• One-Pagers #1 & 2 due October 26th – MAKE SURE YOU ARE READING – 2 NOVELS COMPLETED EVERY CARD MARKING!  End of card marking is in a month, have you read at least one book so far?