



WELCOME
​to Starline's 5th-6th Gifted Classroom
Monday, December 21
Winter Break
No School!

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OUR CURRICULUM:

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Envision:
Career Aspiration

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Genre Journeys: Biography
Students should be working on Component 2: Questions. There is a bulleted list of questions in the Student Guide. For each bullet, students should have a new page in their portfolio. These 11 pages should each have a title and at least one paragraph answering all aspects of the questions posed. After this week, students should be close to done with these 11 pages.
This project is the only Independent Reading Genre I will have the students work on this quarter.. At this time, students should be reading (or finishing) their biography book and beginning to complete "Activity Cards" in class.

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Scholastic
SCOPE
Our second issue has arrived. The October issue at a glance:
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"Grammar goes to the grave" (grammar)
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"The Evil Swirling Darkness" (narrative nonfiction)
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"How Candy Conquered America" (drama)
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"Would You Move To Mars" (debate)
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"The Spider Curse and Is This The Most Hated Athlete of All Time" (paired texts)
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"Why We Love This Stupid Cat" (The Lazy Editor)
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"Fabulous First-Line" (You Write It)

Ancient Egypt
The class has just finished the 6th cataract. We have made ancient egyption menets,khats,headbands,and nome standards.