Agenda, December 8

Due Now: Parent or guardian signature on class rules.    Due Now: Finished name tag. If you added symbols or colors, let us know.
Do Today: 25 Days of Kindness - Help clean up your classroom. Do Tonight and Tomorrow: Go see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge.
Today's Learning Targets:

• I can analyze a short story.
• I can use art to show my comprehension.
• I can use direct quotes to support my interpretation.
• I can write a properly punctuated sentence. 

Today's Agenda:

1. "An American Childhood" Plot Review
2. Art or Drama? (Storyboard or Slide Show?) 
3. Exit Ticket #2: Tell us something about the first week of winter trimester. Remember that "I" is capitalized and "I'm" has an apostrophe.

Storyboard Requirements:

• Reread the chase scene - from "Often, of course ..." (226) to "He caught us and we all stopped" (227).
• Pick four important events to illustrate.
• For each event, include a quotation that helps us understand your illustration. Copy the author's words directly. Put the author's words in quotation marks and put the page number in parentheses after the quotation.
• Use color for extra credit.