- Today students should have completed reading ch.8-12 in The Bully Boys (assigned early last week) and found 6-12 new vocabulary words for their duotang
- Those who were on track, read ch.13-15 and started a Connections activity, finding connections between the novel and their world, and other texts.
- We read about the 3 Conferences that took place during Confederation and practiced our active reading skills of highlighting key information.
- Students will continue to work on Bully Boys novel study. The day to have the book completed Friday, June 5th.
- Students will be working in their British North American Colony groups and writing up statements to start our mock conference on Wednesday. They will be writing questions to ask other colonies during our confederation conference and questions that they think they might be asked, in preparation.
Wed. May 27th -
- Mock Conference Day - we will have a mock conference of the London Conference during confederation where students will discuss the pros and cons of their colony joining confederation.
Thurs. May 28th -
- Students will collect information in reorganized groups from people of all the BNA colonies about confederation. They will plot this information in a chart so they can have a quick reference as to who joined confederation in 1867 and who did not, and why they didn't.
- Students will be given a Confederation Assessment (open book - independent)
Fri. May 29th -
- Time to complete Confederation Assessment independently in class and also time to continue reading The Bully Boys.
No comments:
Post a Comment