March 3

After completing the bell ringer, we listened to Matt's lovely speech. Then, we did some paired reading for Ch 7 and discussed dialect. Finally, we watched Will's speech for the Rotary Club and talked some more about topics. Tomorrow, your manuscript is DUE. Some other topics to contemplate are...should you allow your children to go trick-or-treating, summer reading (mandatory), cell phone usage during school hours, class blogs as communication tools, unions, school uniforms, allowing children to date before age 16, curfew (law OR parental rule), allowing young children to play video games, playing cards in school (gambling issue), hats in schools, book bags in schools, under 18 must be supervised in malls, working age, driving age, drinking age, tobacco age, age of consent (laws on statutory rape), computer access in the home, cell phones for children (what age is appropriate). Those are just some...