In Reading Lab, I passed out a checklist for the “C” level assignments. All of these assignments need to be completed by December 10th. Several of you had already lost your hard work, so today we made envelopes to store our projects in. When every item on the checklist has been checked off, you will turn the whole envelope in to Ms. Jessi.

In Reading Lab, we broke the “Teen Trouble” task down into steps. We devoted a half hour of class time to working on this. We need to complete at least five of these to meet the minimum requirement for Ms. Jessi’s assignment.

In Reading Lab, we did the first step of one of our The Outsiders unit projects. The directions from Ms. Jessi say that we need to brainstorm the troubles that teens today face. We did that together, and then used the brainstorm to create some word art with at least five teen troubles. We will turn in this word art with the second part of the assignment, which you will need to do on your own in Ms. Jessi’s class or at home.

The second part of this assignment is to list at least five troubles that the teens in The Outsiders face. Support your list with a quote and page numbers where an example of this conflict can be found. As we have been listening to the book in class, we have paused to write down these page numbers when we come across conflicts that we thought we might use for this assignments. These should be in your binder in the Language Arts section.

Then, you need to write a reflection on how you relate to the troubles that the teens in The Outsiders faced. Did they handle the trouble in a healthy way? What would you have done if you were in their shoes?