Week of 10-11-10

This week, Ms. Kaufman and the students read several chapters in The Giver.  We are starting to learn that a Utopian Society may not be all that it appears.  We are beginning to explore some ideas such as, having a committee choose our careers for us, being limited to a certain number of family members, not being able to choose our own mate and being released from the community if rules are broken.   We started the week with a class spelling Bee...congratulations to the 4 who are moving on to represent our class.  Students ended the week with a Unit 2 vocabulary test, a notebook check and sustained silent reading with their novel in preparation for a book project due November 1.