
3rd nine weeks
This nine weeks we will be focusing on several new skills and standards. We will learn about propaganda in advertising and in politics, author's bias, editorials, persuasive essays, informational text and graphic features in writing, author's purpose, and using transtions in writing just to name a few. The regular stems, spelling, and Reading Journals will continue. We will have a novel study relating to the Holocaust and several mini-projects as well.