January 13

This Week in English:
We will begin a new unit on reading and writing non-fiction text
We will study text features in non-fiction texts
We will begin pre-writing for research topics we will use during this unit
We will check out our new book talk books
We will work on correctly using who and whom
Our first grade this quarter will be the poetry book due last Friday

Due Friday:
Vocabulary triple chart for this unit
Text features packet
Two pre-write pages in writing notebook
Assigned work for who and whom


This week in Reading:
We will do a quick review on the good strategies readers use
We will begin reading The Outsiders
We will focus on character analysis for the characters in the first chapter