Welcome back, everyone!

• Spring assessment is coming. We'll be checking:
• Reading - a timed test that will take one class.
• Writing - we've been working on this for a while, but we'll do a "cold" writing sample soon.
• Speaking - this has been mostly done through presentations.
• Listening - this has also been done during class discussions. 

It's important to remember that over the next two weeks, your level will be measured based on a lot of information. No single writing sample will decide your level next year. The ELL department will look at each student's work carefully.

In each class, pick one of the following topics after we finish our silent reading. We'll have a little discussion before we write.

• Who was the person you spent the most time with and why? What did you do with them? 
• Write about a place that you went over the Spring Break. 
• What did you do for yourself during Spring Break? 
• Write about something you did with your family over Spring Break. 

ELL 1/2 Social Studies

Not everyone has uploaded their current events video. Please do this as soon as possible. If we have time during class, I will speak to you privately if I haven't seen it yet.

We'll be returning to our red textbooks.

ELL 3 Social Studies

Not everyone has done the activity for their presentation. Please make time to respond to my questions in a lightning response on your portfolio if you haven't already. Please check my post below this one for more information. (March 12)

Back to the political spectrum. Check this out:

This represents one dimension of the political spectrum. We'll dive back into our texts for a little more on this today.

ELL 1/2 Science

Please finish your personal health video if you haven't done so already. Please see the previous post (March 12) for more information.

Please return your textbooks for the class - the Human Body. Hold on to the duotang for now, as we haven't finished with that one yet!

ELL 3 English
Now that we've finished spring break, we'll do our best to finish up our elements of fiction for "The Help". Of course, it's been two weeks - so we might just jump to our next item :)

Lather and Nothing Else.