January 2016 
We are kicking off the new year with our One Book, One School initiative. All students and staff at John Winthrop will be reading Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. The narrator is an 11th grade boy named Leo who tells the story of Stargirl, the new girl at his school. Stargirl is not your average teenager. She wears weird clothing, plays the ukulele, sings birthday songs to peers in the cafeteria, decorates her desk before class, and changes the lives of those around her. As a class we will be looking at the use of literary devices to progress the story and character development throughout the story. Students will read both in and out of class. In addition, we will continue to study grammar in our daily warmups and students will continue to read their independent reading books. 
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