Greeting Folks,

Here are the things we did in class today:

1. Mrs. Peterson reviewed tips for paragraph writing with this point being the “big one”

•Staying on topic in writing a paragraph, paragraph equals one idea.

•The topic sentence tells the one idea

Go home this weekend and share with your parents the main point of today’s lesson.

2. We shared with you our next unit of study and began preparing for an opportunity to have the guest author, Richard Rubin, come in and talk to us about his most recent book, The Last of the Doughboys.

3. In your SSEnglish journal, on the top of 3 different, clean pages, date and label each question below:

•What do you think you know about World War I?

•What are your fat questions about World War I?

•What are your skinny, essential questions about World War I?

(Hint: these are the questions that build your background knowledge.)

Essential:  absolutely necessary; a thing that is absolutely necessary; extremely important,  fundamental or central to the nature of something or someone.

4. Make sure you get  a copy of the editorial passed out today that appeared in The New York Times and written by Richard Rubin for Veterans Day 2007.

Richard Rubin’s editorial: “Over There — and Gone Forever”

Read this handout with a pencil; it is due on Monday.

Remember, we will walk down to the Wolfeboro Public on Monday; bring your rain gear and library card.