Hello, Readers!
I just wanted to give you some reading HOMEWORK info! You will be having homework in READING every night. Are you hip-hip-hooraying? You should be! Getting to read every night is a huge treat! Reading can Take You Away!!!
This year, our class reading will enhance all that we are learning about in history. We'll read primary source documents from Christopher Columbus and Lewis and Clark; historical fiction novels about the relationships between the Native Americans of the New World and the Conquistadores; events that occurred in the colonies, such as the Salem Witch Trials; and, biographies of great Americans like Pocahontas and Benjamin Franklin.
You will get to read every school night, and on the weekends, too! You will be given a calendar of reading assignments each time we have a new book. You will be asked to read for certain information: character development, settings, plot development. And you will also keep a list of all the words in the reading that you might not understand. Your spelling words will be taken from our reading, too!
We will start each class with a short quiz about what you were supposed to read the night before. So, be sure and READ!!! Remember,
Reading's a delight. . . a thrill. . . FUN!!!
Mrs. Horner
