First and seventh periods completed in-class work on a letter-writing project with schools across America. We used it as an opportunity to practice for tomorrow’s PASS test.

Second period finished up the anticipatory set for The Giver. We’ll begin after the coming two days of pass testing.

Fourth period began looking at the themes in Great Expectations that we will be examining throughout the unit. These are the themes we will also use to guide our research project at the end of the unit.

• economics
• family units
• education
• housing
• penal system
• law enforcement
• social classes
• gender roles

(More information will be on the Great Expectations notes page.)

Homework

• All classes: journal.