ELA



We are all very happy to be finished with the ELA portion of the MCAS :) 5 Gold is now reading __The Fighting Ground__ by Avi. This story follows a young boy throughout a day in April of 1778, right in the middle of the Revolution...which ties in very nicely to our Social Studies unit on the Revolution! Students are working in Literature Circle groups to complete the assigned reading and various jobs including writing brief summaries, creating new chapter titles, making connections, etc.As a group, students are also working on a story map of some sort to keep track of the important plot events. They are also tracking how the main character's feelings towards war change throughout the novel.