Sections 1 and 2 should use their online books to complete a storyboard for Tom Sawyer. (The user name and pass are their student ID #.) There are 12 boxes. About every 10 lines or so, students should copy a line from the story and illustrate it. They can use simple stick figures. Like a comic book, the boxes will tell a story. The story conveys the theme.
We are exploring this Common Core Standard: CC.8.R.L.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot;
Section 3 will have to finish their Tom Sawyer charts in class tomorrow.
All Classes have KBAR due Friday.
Sections 2 and 3 will get a pass on today's in-class reading because the Tom Sawyer assignment took too long for the students to complete.