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Our Language Arts class will be adopting an animal in need through the World Wildlife Fund. But first, we need to vote on which animal to help! Click on this link to go to the WWF webpage and see the list of endangered North American animals. Pick the animal you would like the class to adopt.

To convince the class to vote for your animal, you will write a persuasive paragraph about your choice in class. As part of the Persuasive Paragraph assignment, you will need to research your animal and collect 3-5 facts to support your argument. These facts should help you to convince a classmate that your animal really needs our help the most. Use the following websites to gather information about your animal.

World Wildlife Fund Kid's Planet Earth's Endangered Creatures U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Webquest gr 3 http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/webquests/animal/index.html#introduction

=LOOK!!! LOOK!!!= Have students "adopt" an animal. Each student gets to babysit the stuffed animal each night and has to write about what that animal did that day. great idea for a blog too. LOOK!!! LOOK!!! I want the students to think about what //would have// or //could have// happened "if" such and such event did not occur. I envision this being a side-by-side timeline...fact and then fiction. This would be a collaborative effort.

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[|Landforms TEST practice game!!!]

Read Write Think [|www.readwritethink.org] http://freeology.com/

 

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