This week, we are moving ahead with our reading of The Circuit, and some of the classes might even finish the novel! As we read, we are continuing to look for and highlight those places in the text that reveal the challenges migrant workers face, especially in the categories of work, money, education, and health.
Our Skill of the Week is formatting titles correctly. In class, we discussed several rules:
-"smaller" texts are always formatted with quotation marks (i.e.. short stories, poems, chapter titles, song titles, and newspaper articles)
-"larger" texts are formatted with italics when typing and underline when handwriting (i.e. novels, newspaper titles, and album titles)
*An easy way to test whether a text is "smaller" or "larger" is to ask whether it can be broken into sections. If a text CAN be broken into sections, it is most likely a "larger" text.
HOMEWORK:
-Read 30 minutes each night. All Reading Logs due by October 30.
-6-1 Author's Craft Evidence Sandwich revisions due Thurs. 10/16
-6-2 Author's Craft Evidence Sandwich due Thurs. 10/16
-6-3 Author's Craft Evidence Sandwich revisions due Fri. 10/17