Today we FINISHED taking the Milestones, yay!!! I hope each and every one of you feel confident in your hard work you've put forth in taking these tests. You all are extremely capable of high scores on these so I am sure that your scores will reflect that :) Today we continued working on our Bloom Globes. Remember that your 2nd Bloom Globe is due THURSDAY when you walk in the door. A lot of you have already started your 3rd Bloom Globe and those are due next Monday. HW: Work on your Bloom Globes Preparing for the future: we will be starting a novel study which will allow you to pick two different novels to read and create a report about. I have listed out the names of each book in case you want to go ahead and order them. I have class sets of some but, you may want your own copy to take home. Book 1 List (Choose one of the following): Life As We Knew it by: Susan Beth Pfeffer (class set available) H2O by: Virginia Bergin Not a Drop to Drink by: Mindy McGinnis Ship Breaker by: Paolo Bacigalupi Flush by: Carl Hiaasen (class set available) The Same Stuff as Stars by: Katherine Paterson (class set available) Dark Life by: Kat Falls (class set available) Journey to the Center of the Earth by: Jules Verne (class set available) Wrinkle in Time by: Madeleine L'Engle (class set available) Book of your Choice: in order to choose a book of your choice, you must submit a proposal in order to justify that it relates to a standard that we have learned in class this year. You can see a complete list of the 6th grade science standards here: https://www.georgiastandards.org/standards/Georgia%20Performance%20Standards/SixthGradeRevisedStandards.pdf Book 2: Any other book from the Book 1 List The Storm by: Virginia Bergin (must have read H2O) Rip Tide by: Kat Falls (must have read Dark Life) The Dead and the Gone by: Susan Beth Pfeffer (must have read Life as we Knew it) (class set available)
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