Welcome back after our snow days. We did our root word quiz and finished taking the AR test for anyone who had missed it. We are now done with Treasure Island for this year. We will not be showing the movie or doing the final performances.

Today we began working on our ISTEP prep writing. This means we are practicing for the writing portion of the ISTEP tests. Today we talked about how writing prompts give us information about what we are to write about and tell us who we are writing to. Our first practice prompt was:

You wake up in 2025. What technology has changed. You are writing a letter to your dog back in 2010.

Everyone was given 30 minutes or longer of writing time and the prompts were turned in at the end of class.

You MUST bring your Literary Circle books to class everyday for the next two weeks.