Mr.+Barkett

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Week One :: "How Can We All Learn?"
These first two weeks we'll be creating our classroom systems including...
 * establishing our beginning of the year reading lexiles
 * checking out books from the Media Center
 * organizing our agendas and Language Arts folders
 * learning our class management system

These steps are designed to help everybody learn in the most efficient way possible.

Week Two and Three :: "How do our choices affect our futures?"
This week we'll start our unit on short stories. The first of our short stories is called "Checkouts" and it's about a young boy and girl who develop a crush on each other. One choice, one decision, though, changes everything for them. Has that ever happened to you?

We'll also be looking at the Elements of Fiction and how each of these elements work together to create fictional stories.

Week Four :: "How do our experiences make us who we are?"
Continuing our short story unit, this week we'll be reading "Stop the Sun," a story about a father and his son as they deal with his father's post-traumatic stress disorder after he's returned from fighting in the Vietnam war.

Weeks Five through Seven :: "Flowers for Algernon"
This novella (a very short novel) is one of my favorite stories of all time! We'll read the tragic account of Charlie Gordon and his furry friend Algernon as they undergo an experiment to increase their intelligence. What could possibly go wrong?