Thursday, October 20, 2016

Important Reminders
- Canned Food Donations to Second Harvest Food Bank (Kingdom competition!)
- Book Fair
- Fall Festival this Thurs. 10/20 from 5-9 p.m.
- Sign up for Math Olympiad – Registration Closes Friday 10/21 by 9 pm 
No School Friday 

Language Arts 
- in your Lucy Calkins Narrative Writing Unit Google Doc, make sure to add the following:

• learning target for Session Eleven (on slide 3)
• one bullet for the "How to Write Powerful Personal Narratives" chart (on slides 9)
• an entry for 10/18/16: elaborate on portions in your narrative, add to/delete from your narrative in order to bring out the meaning of your story

- NoRedInk Assignment #6: Subject-Verb Agreement II due next Mon. 10/24
- Newsela assignment: read one article everyday (pick three from each text set so at the end of the week you will have read six articles, three from each category)

Election Issue: Gender Equality
Election Issue: Income Inequality

Be prepared to answer these questions in Google Classroom — due next Mon. 10/24: 
Should a woman be the next face of the $20 bill?
Are individuals responsible for living in poverty?
In your response, make sure you include textual evidence from some of the articles you read to support your opinion.  

Social Studies
- Problems and Solutions of Sumer Project writing portion due in Google Classroom on Mon. 10/24 (make sure you open the Google Doc that was pushed to you in Google Classroom and start your writing at the end of the document where it says "Start Your Writing Here..."

Math
14 Problems in journal

Science
Review Topics for Test

Exploratory (Oliveira)
No Homework

Exploratory (Sun)
No Homework