Last week we...

• Practiced dialogue grammar daily
• Turned in teen entrepreneur article packet
• Took vocabulary quiz 5.1
• Read "Raisin in the Sun" play and completed viewing guide (turned in)
• Picked out books to read out loud to the MID/MOID students 

This week we will...

• Complete "Raisin in the Sun" literary elements graphic organizer (turn in)
• Take the dialogue quiz
• Practice fluency by reading to the MID/MOID students
• Take the post-reading inventory to measure growth
• Work on business plan end of workshop project DUE BEFORE THE END OF THE SEMESTER!

This is the LAST WEEK of the semester and the END of Read 180. Make sure all current and past assignments are turned in! You will be in 9th Grade Literature next semester after the break. 

**See attached notes for additional information.

This week we...

• ​Practiced grammar daily.
• Worked through Read 180 software segments daily.
• Practiced vocabulary 4.1.
• Conducted research and filled out our amendment graphic organizers.
• Started drafting our argument essays in class.
• Conducted a peer review and self review of our rough drafts.
• Started working on our final drafts.

Next week we will...

• Turn in our argument essays on Monday.
• Take vocabulary quiz 4.1 on Monday.
• Read about careers in law/justice system.
• Read about Mars exploration, aerospace engineering, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos to analyze point of view and problems vs. solutions.
• Draft our interview questions for our STEAM project with the engineering students.
• Practice Vocabulary 4.2

**See the attached notes for further information.
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This week we...
-Practiced vocabulary 3.2
-Took vocabulary quiz 3.3 (Thursday)
-Completed daily grammar practice
-Annotated the government surveillance debate articles
-Created our own government surveillance debate
-Read about Brownsville Youth Court to make inferences

Next week we will...
-Practice vocabulary 3.3
-Practice grammar daily (parallel structure, commas, capitalization, punctuation)
-Read about the death penalty to analyze author's purpose
-Analyze a model argument essay using TREE method
-Start planning and writing our own argument essay