Starting next week, for every week thereafter (except for rare occasions), students will get a front and back sheet with 5 vocab words and their definitions. For each word they will choose a way to prove they understand the word. This square is pasted into one of the back pages of their agendas. The word should be underlined each time they use the word. The students should, of course, remember t do this on their own. It is below in case your child loses their agenda. It will be due Wednesdays.
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The Texas Center for the Book has launched the 2019-2020 Letters About Literature Texas contest, a program that invites students to respond to authors of books or poetry who have touched their lives. The contest opened November 4, 2019, and is open to Texas students in grades 4 through 12. Participants select a book, book series, essay, play poem, short story of speech that has made a lasting impact on their lives. They then write a personal letter to the author that reflects how they have been changed, inspired or motivated by the work they selected. State winners receive $100 and a trip to the 2020 Texas Library Association Conference. All submissions for the 2020 contest must be submitted on the new online submission platform by December 17, 2019, 5:00 p.m. (CST). A permission form is required for all students who will be younger than 13 on November 4, 2019. To learn more about the contest, how to submit and to view winning entries from previous years, visit https://www.tsl.texas.gov/lettersaboutliterature
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Students NEVER need to do IXL more for longer than 15 minutes per night. I made a mistake telling students that they needed to get a 100% on RR.2. I didn't realize how long it took some of them. In the future, for each IXL assignment (including assignments to go back and keep working on one from last week), students do not have to work longer than 15 minutes. If your child is having trouble and frustration, please tell them to tell me the next day and I will work with them one on one till we can call it done. Also, IXL can be accomplished during or after school for the lesson due before Friday.
Every week I will post the ELA agenda and spelling words here: https://brilesaweigh.weebly.com/photo-feed.html. The part of the agenda that says "IXL by Fri" is the part that the students need to do on their own time before Fri. We will do the other IXL lesson during the day on Fri, but I write it up there in case they want to do it early.
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