PJ responded to questions about inspirational videos in writing.

As a prereading strategy for Bradbury's "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed", we researched facts about Mars. We also discussed the elements of science fiction. Then we began reading the story, pausing to discuss key points.

We read an excerpt from this narrative, pausing to discuss portions of the text.

We finished reading the article about the Rover landing on Mars. Chris also wrote a review for "One Love", which we both separately saw over the weekend. Then, Chris read over his review, editing for grammatical errors.

PJ watched a video about following your dreams as well as one about facing your fears. Then he responded to questions about the video, using complete sentences, remembering to use a comma after and introductory phrase.

David worked on his creative writing piece today.

We reviewed parts of a sentence and sentence order in a paragraph. Chris also differentiated between a phrase and a clause, identifying bold words in a sentence.

We began to explore PJ's family history through genealogy research, analyzing primary sources, and verifying names/dates to create his family tree.

PJ learned about how to write a paragraph for a process, using signal words to transition between steps. He also crafted topic sentences for process paragraphs. Then he wrote his own process paragraph.

Today we read about and discussed current local events.