- Respond to the following topic with at least 1/2 a page and no more than 1 page, using font size 12 or 14, Arial or Times New Roman, on your home computer. You can print it on your own or create a Google Doc and send it using gmail.
- Use your step up to writing strategies (green, yellow, red) to develop your topic sentence and support sentences as you build your paragraphs:
Welcome to Grade 5! - Jan. 27th- Mini Mystery- complete the story you started in class. Use the ideas from your brainstorming notebook. Make sure you have a clear crime, victim, clues/evidence and a very good detective who knows who did it by the end. Make sure not to say who did it because the class will have to figure it out after you read it.
March 17th- Irish immigrants came to North America in the thousands and make up a large part of our Montreal community. Explore the newspaper and the internet for some of the reasons why so many Irish left home. Learn about St. Patrick and St. Patrick’s Day (Friday, March 17th) and the annual parade that takes place in our city and in many cities every year.
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