What are you interested in learning more about? What topic or idea are you willing to spend time to explore?  What draws you to this?  How do you think you will go about researching?  What materials might you need?  And...how would you like to share your learning?  Is this something you would like to explore alone, or do you think working with a partner might be best? How can I help you with your study?

WOW...That's a lot of questions!!  Be thinking about where your curiosity might take you over the next 5-6 weeks.  I can't wait to see what we learn from each other.

As we work on narrative writing, make sure to use meaningful tags to your dialogue.  You can try out some dialogue on this post...have fun creating a character's mood using these tags.  Make sure you add some description with your dialogue.  

For example... Jill sobbed, "I want to go home!" as the train pulled away from the only place she'd known.  She was going to miss this place..