From 1944-1945, Allied troops advanced into Nazi territory and began discovering and liberating concentration camps. Liberators came from different countries, including the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Canada, and provided assistance and relief to Jewish prisoners. The Allied soldiers who first entered the Nazi death and labor camps scattered across Europe are called Liberators. We viewed one scene of what they may have encountered in Stephen Spielberg's "Band of Brothers."

Fahrenheit 451 reading and discussion; adding to characterization chart; video lesson "Navigating Digital Information: Who Can You Trust?" This episode is about how to identify credible sources of information on the Internet and how to identify if an article, video, website, etc. has false information or not; began "Evaluating Source Credibility" guided assignment related to Unit 5 concepts.

Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary; MegaWords 28 final spelling assessment (88% accuracy for placing the correct e vowel teams; 68% accuracy for whole word spelling accuracy) we will be moving on from MegaWords 28; oral reading fluency (ORF) 99 words per minute with 0 errors for a passage of 660 Lexile level.

In today's class, we did an experiment where we made our our home made ice cream. Cameron learned the science behind what it takes to freeze and make ice cream, and we had a blast doing so.

8-4 Modeling with Quadratic Functions – We used quadratic functions to find the area of a rectangular pool and deck. Then we learned to use the vertical motion model to write an equation for the height of an object after an initial velocity. We used the formula –b/2a to find the number of seconds for the object to reach its maximum height. Then we substituted the number of seconds into the original equation to find the maximum height.

What were the Allies goals after invading the European mainland? Today we discussed D-Day on June 6, 1944 was preceded by Allied landings in Sicily in 1943. These troops fought their way up the boot of Italy against Italian and Nazi forces to gain access to southern Germany. The the soldiers who landed in Nazi occupied France on D-Day were tasked with liberating France and moving east towards Germany. Cameron's great grandfather fought in WWII. He asked that we view one more scene from "Band of Brothers" and he was very attentive and interested.

We learned how businesses need to make it a priority to show their customers they care about things like the environment.

Fahrenheit 451 (pages 22-30); discussion/comprehension questions; add information about characters to study guide; add to characterization tracker about Guy Montag; continuing our activities related to identifying credible information to go along with Unit 5 theme of challenging truth.

BHM entry on Nat Turner's rebellion (reading and comprehension questions); ReadTheory (1 passage); Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary (1 round on vocabulary.com)

The Other Journal entry writing workshop -