28.1. "The Nest" RL Assessment and W9.

What Are We Learning This Week?

Skill: We are learning to deal with standardized testing formats -- the multiple choice test (RL) and the open-ended question (W9).

Essential Question: What do parents and children owe one another?

What Are We Practicing This Week?

We will use this to practice previously learned skills (RL1, RL2, RL3, and RL4). The test format is new, and important to get accustomed to*, but the questions that are on the test are all aspects of fiction and nonfiction that we have been discussing, analyzing, and practicing all year.

RL2. Raymond's Run

This is the reading that you want to do if you decide to try and get the Five Fingers check, either at expert or proficient. It's a story, one I really like, by Toni Cade Bambara called "Raymond's Run," we'll be reading another by her later in the year, but I like this one best. I highly recommend it. (Click on the title of the story; the other link is just background information, IYI).

2.1.1. Short Story "Gentleman of Rio en Medio"

Tonight's short story, "Gentleman of Rio en Medio," celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and is the first new reading (The Giver will continue to be a core text for our discussion and thinking) in Unit 2: Values, Rules, Crime, the focus of our thematic discussions for the next six weeks.

After you have read the text, make sure to write a Five Finger summary of it. If you need review for this technique, search Five Fingers in the search box above, or check your own Google Drive for your own completed work.

Submit your work to me through Google Drive; it's due by midnight (not that I think that you should wait until 11:30 to get it done).