Dear Parents,
Happy Thanksgiving! It is exciting to have a long weekend ahead of us, but we have a lot of exciting things to learn this shorter week as well.
Deficiency notices were sent out over the weekend, so make sure you double check for them. If you received a deficiency notice for your student and have any questions please feel free to email me. There is still a lot of time to bring up grades in this quarter.
Here is a snapshot of what we will be doing this week:
In History we will be learning about the founding of the religion of Islam. We will learn how the prophet Muhammad organized a religion in the face of great resistance, and how he established traditions and Pillars of the Muslim faith that would endure to the modern day. We will have an open note quiz on Wednesday.
In Literature we will be having a seminar on King Arthur this Monday. The question we will be discussing is "Who was the best Knight in the book and why?" Ask your students how the conversation went and if they learned anything new from their peers! We will then be introducing William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night which the student's will be performing as a reader's theater in December.
In Writing we will be practicing writing persuasive sentences and analyzing what types of sentences we use to be persuasive. Ask your students what they think persuasion is and how we can be persuasive in a virtuous way.
Best,
Mr. Ohbayashi
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