Students returned from Thanksgiving and:
- Discussed several followup questions over Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
- Began writing an Essay Ranking the Spanish Explorers - See instructions here.
- They will be able to work on it in Grammar class with Mrs. Horner.
- The essay will be due Thursday.
- Began reading and discussing the Chapter 5 Summary: Missions and Settlements
- Students will take a Quiz over the Ch. 5 Summary on Wednesday.
- We finished the first paragraph, pausing to relate key terminology from the reading to things depicted in the maps and pictures to the right.
- We color-coded key terminology and then inserted arrows stretching from the words to the picture. Click here to get an idea of how this was done.
- We distinguished between missions & presidios.
- Did a sort of anticipatory discussion of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which we will read and discuss over the next week. One question raised and discussed was "Why does Dickens call his chapters "Staves"? Click here to see various formats available.
For Wednesday - Quiz over Ch. 5 Summary: Missions and Settlements
For Thursday - Essay Ranking the Explorers
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