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Good Morning! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I was very excited to welcome my new nephew Brighton Mac to the world on Friday. A brand new baby is the perfect way to bring in Spring, so here is a little glimpse of his sweetness!

We begin AZMerit this week with the writing assessment on Friday. Please be sure your student is at school on time and has had a healthy breakfast. We have worked hard to prepare for this test and I have confidence that our class will do very well!

ELA

In Literature we will continue,reading  Across Five Aprils. We will will have a class debate about fighting in the Civil War and will continue looking at vocabulary in context.

We will be taking the  AZMerit writing test on Friday. To continue preparing we will be sharing our practice essays with the class and will look at sample persuasive essays.

We will have a quiz over roots 76-79 on Wednesday and will introduce our new poem, Barbara Frietchie. This is a long poem so students will be reciting this in groups on Wednesday, April 12th.

Math

This week the students will learn how to interpret a set of data in many ways- mean, median, mode, histograms, tables, and pie charts.  There will be no math groups this week!

Science

We are studying the human body. There is a skeleton quiz on Wednesday!

History

This week, students will take their Westward Expansion Before the Civil War test. The study guide is due Monday, 3/27. The unit test will be on Tuesday, 3/28. Students will also finish learning about US Geography with the West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. A study guide for the 50 states map test will go home on Wednesday, 3/29, due 4/5. The test will be on Wednesday, 4/12. We will start our unit on the Civil War this week. We are discussing slavery throughout the unit, with an emphasis on the life of a Civil War era American slave this week. This may be sensitive content for some students, so please have a discussion at home if needed.