Welcome back to a very cold, snowy, icy, polar vortex of a year! 2014 has certainly made a chilly appearance. Here's hoping the bad weather is behind us!
Sixth graders have begun our new unit: Literature Changes Thinking. Over the next month or so (depending on the weather!), we'll be digging into persuasive text, including essays, books and articles. We'll be learning vocab, including audience, essential information and author's purpose. We'll also learn how to be smart readers, looking for bias when we read or listen to news stories.
This unit promises to be an interesting one; we'll be discussing hot topics such as: should there be zoos, facebook, the cafeteria social scene, if co-ed classes should end, and if there should be homework over the holidays.
Students will wrap up the unit by working with a partner on their own debate article, modeled after the Scholastic News SCOPE magazine articles we've read. They'll get to weigh in on one of thirteen topics and research facts to support their opinions.
Now, if we could only persuade Jack Frost to go some place else...
Happy persuading!
Mrs. Boltz
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