Week 2.9

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 This is the last week of the 9 weeks.

Students will begin a new book this week, The Duel. This book will be used to teach a wide variety of skills and standards including differing portrayals of information, historical texts vs. fictional stories, and argument. We will learn about bias, tracing arguments, and review denotation and connotation as well this week. 

 

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