Here's to the whirlwind of learning between Thanksgiving and Winter breaks!  This week we will wrap up Animal Farm - the Cycle of Power and Chapter 6 Civics.  We will finish the AF video, do some group activities on the Cycle of Power while learning more about dictatorships. The reading checks for ch. 6 Civics will be finished by Thursday --- and our final test on the previously mentioned material will be Friday.  Whew.  In between all the Civics, we will work on a small poetry unit in our literature book - this will continue until break (each student will have a poem to memorize over break). Hopefull we are all good at finding all the energy we can muster! Welcome back :)