Our 8th grade ELA classes just finished up reading and solving the case of Sherlock Holmes’ “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” We spent time looking at how the author establishes mood and keeping our own detective journals. Today we played a Jeopardy review game to make sure that we knew the details of the story in advance of our quiz.
As always, we are working on making inferences–reading between the lines–of the text that we are reading and applying this to the world around us. We will continue to focus on this important reading skill as we move past Thanksgiving and into the month of December! Where does the year go?!
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