After experiencing great weather at Taft for three days, we came back to regroup. We wrote about Frederick Douglass and a moment from Taft, and then we read a bunch and had a book picnic so we could get to know the summer reading books! The next week, we read another article of the week - a satire about fidget spinners! We then wrapped up poetry with "Casey at the Bat," "The Highwayman," and "Nothing Gold Can Stay." This last one is the famous poem from The Outsiders, which is what we've been reading this week! Since it is the end of the year, students know how to annotate and work independently, and the book is fairly simple for 7th grade, we are reading this book Whole Novels style (Ariel Sacks). See our work on this page of the website. We will continue with this for one more week. No spoilers! ;)
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