Special Guest Speaker:

ASSETOU XANGO IS A COLORADO NATIVE, A TEDX SPEAKER AND THE AURORA POET LAURIET. ON TUESDAY SHE WILL BE VISITING WESTGATE TO TEACH US ABOUT SLAM POETRY AND HELP US CREATE OUR OWN SLAM POEMS.

In addition to this, students will continue reading I Am Malala. This week students will be responsible for pages. On Wednesday, students will do a free-write and then finish their book group roles and discussion for pages 56-95.

Students will then start pages 96-150. Some of this reading will need to be done over Thanksgiving break. In addition to reading and discussion the book, students will work with parts of speech and identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.