Here’s what we did today:

1. If we didn’t get your page number today for your reading last week (260 pages), see your reading workshop teacher on Tuesday before 7:25.

2. Mrs. Peterson gave notes today on the use of the apostrophe; get the notes from a reliable student if you were absent. Complete the Apostrophes-Practice handout for homework tonight—due tomorrow.

3. Reading With A Pencil assignments for Coyote Handout and Over There—and Gone Forever were passed back today. See us for your copy if you were absent. If you didn’t get it back, then you did not pass it in and you are on lunch detention until it is completed.

4. Three maps and the handout, Analyzing Maps: Europe Before and After World War I  were handed out. Work on the assignment for at least 25-minutes tonight; the completed assignment is due on Monday, December 9; be ready for a test on the maps that day.

Maps handed out: Europe Before WWI; Europe After WWI; Europe Today

5. We returned to our discussion of hydraulic fracturing today with another handout, “Fracking’s Achilles’ Heel” by Joe Nocera. This is a reading with a pencil assignment that is due on Wednesday, December 4. Remember to:

•Read it at least two times if not more.

•Write comments for everything you underline.

•Begin to develop symbols for different kinds of information you underline.