I hope everyone had a safe and restful Thanksgiving...if you're like me, you need a rest after Thanksgiving festivities!

Math: You should now see a clear shift from our Hands-On Equations process to an application of variables/unknowns in equations. It is critically important that at this point, please discourage students from doing mental math to determine the value of the unknown - without an understanding of this fundamental, algebraic process they will struggle the the problems get more complex and the numbers grow in size! If nothing else, homework is about the process for the time being... This includes their worksheet tonight!

Language Arts: After weeks of determining importance, identifying the primary topic/main idea, and distinguishing supportive details from the rest of the content, we composed a summary today. Stay tuned for some summary work this week!