January 10

Welcome back! I hope that you all enjoyed your 3 week break from school. Today, I gave you a due date for the S.M.A.R.T. plan friendly letter assignment (see below). Additionally, we started our poetry unit by looking at a poem called "Introduction to Poetry". You will be starting your own version of a poem entitled "Introduction to Poetry" tomorrow in class. I would like you to have a duotang ready for class by Wednesday (this will be your Writer's Workshop duotang for the rest of the year). I also gave you your USA Dictionary Project assignment today. There have been some changes made to this assignment, so please make sure that you purchase your own index cards for this assignment. I will be supplying the binder ring to hold the index cards together. The due date for the rough draft of the key terms and the project itself is T.B.A.

Here are some key dates:

• bring a new duotang for Writer's Workshop by Wednesday, January 12th
• S.M.A.R.T. plan friendly letter is due Monday, January 17th
• USA Geography Test is on Tuesday, January 18th