Mrs. Carr's Classroom News: Take a Peek at Our Week!

In lang & lit, we finished analyzing our third debatable topics! Students are doing a fantastic job collecting evidence from both sides of the argument in order to guide their decisions. They are also becoming quite the bias detectives and discussed how it can influence the strength of an author's argument. At the end of the week, students participated in an electronic chalk talk to share their claims, reasons, and evidence for all three topics they worked on! Next week we will start a new set of topics (snow days, television, and cellphones) and work on evaluating the strength of an argument based on the evidence presented.

In writing, we completed our research for our first argument topic-chocolate milk in schools. Students are working on citing their sources directly in their research to give credit to the author. We also worked on using resources other than texts in order to gather information (videos, charts/graphs). Next week we will start writing our first argument essay based on our research!

In I&S we began our government planner.We started by writing down what we already know about government and what we want to learn in the planner. We had a fantastic discussion and I was so impressed with the background knowledge students shared! Next, students worked in groups to identify the purpose of the U.S. government and made connections between government structures and our classroom structures. Next week we will focus on the actions of citizens!