> Our The Giver narratives were due today. If you didn't turn it in, you'll need to work on it over the weekend and turn it in to me on Tuesday.

In addition, you can do the 'cover art' project for extra credit. Illustrate a scene from your alternate ending, title it 'The Giver alternate ending', and write your name on there as the author. Turn this in anytime next week for credit.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

We don't have our normal vocabulary routine this week, so there will be no quiz on Friday.

Friday is the end of the grading period, so any missing work you have needs to be turned into me by the end of the week. On Tuesday I handed out grade reports with missing assignments. See me if you have questions . . .

This week we're focusing on reading our novel, The Giver. Apart from that, we just have a few of the normal warm-up and grammar pages.

Next week is State Testing! We've been preparing for this over many weeks. At this point, just focus on the strategies we have talked about in class to be fresh and prepared. Test smarter, not harder!

Welcome back!
I hope you had a fun and relaxing winter break.

We finished our 'Beliefs' essays before the break. If you did not finish, it's up to you to do this on your own time . . .

Our homework for this week is as follows:

> Word Roots #11 'scrib'    - and -  Foldable flashcards     due Tues
> choice reading paragraph   due Wed
> 5 vocabulary sentences      due Thurs
> choice reading paragraph    due Fri

*Vocabulary quiz Friday