English 8

Today we began by reading an article on a child slavery escape.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/kristof-a-girls-escape.html?ref=childlabor&_r=1

Students were asked to come up with a ten-word sentence that summarized the reading.

Students were then handed out a piece of writing to decipher:

We then discussed the importance of being literate and the freedom that it provides people in a world full of written word.  Students were asked to answer how they felt when they were unable to read the page and to write a few sentences to tell what it would be like if they were unable to read.

We then read the rest of Chapter 10 as a class.

Finally, students completed their "fakebook" pages.