A reminder that Wednesday is an early release day. We will dismiss at 11:30. Have a great break!
8th Language Arts: We are studying the steps of a hero's journey. If your child is not in school on Wednesday, we will complete pages 48 - 50, as we continue to study the psychological aspects of a hero's journey, according to Joseph Campbell.
6/7th Language Arts: We continue to study the revision of a paper. We have studied adding, replacing and deleting. Wednesday we will practice deleting for revision in one of our own essays or writings.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
For the week!
It is Wednesday and I will be gone the rest of the week to training. I will post for the week, so you know what is happening in Language Arts.
Wednesday: 8th Wrote their rough draft of a paper
6/7 practiced the three types of questions you can ask of a piece of text
Thursday: 8th will type their final draft of their paper
6/7 will work on understanding tone in written text
Friday: Both classes will study parts of speech that lead up to understanding verb tense, one of the most common writing problems in our middle-school classes
Wednesday: 8th Wrote their rough draft of a paper
6/7 practiced the three types of questions you can ask of a piece of text
Thursday: 8th will type their final draft of their paper
6/7 will work on understanding tone in written text
Friday: Both classes will study parts of speech that lead up to understanding verb tense, one of the most common writing problems in our middle-school classes
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Tuesday, November 4
Change your school calendar! The winter program has been changed from December 19 to December 18.
Also, students received reminders today for picture retakes. Make up day is scheduled for November 5. The flyer will show packages available and some cool things such as: photo magnets, bookmarks, travel card, wanted poster and more!
6/7 Language Arts: We continued to go over the writing assessment which was returned yesterday. We worked on commas, semi-colons and conjuctions. No Homework.
8th Language Arts: We studied and made a class guide of how to use quotes and quoatation marks in writing. Students will soon be doing interviews for a paper and will need to use these in their writing. They completed a worksheet for practice, it is due tomorrow.
Reminder: Fall Conferences take place this Friday, November 7.
Also, students received reminders today for picture retakes. Make up day is scheduled for November 5. The flyer will show packages available and some cool things such as: photo magnets, bookmarks, travel card, wanted poster and more!
6/7 Language Arts: We continued to go over the writing assessment which was returned yesterday. We worked on commas, semi-colons and conjuctions. No Homework.
8th Language Arts: We studied and made a class guide of how to use quotes and quoatation marks in writing. Students will soon be doing interviews for a paper and will need to use these in their writing. They completed a worksheet for practice, it is due tomorrow.
Reminder: Fall Conferences take place this Friday, November 7.
Monday, November 3, 2008
November 3
Nav. 101 Students completed their outline for student led conferences taking place this Friday.
6/7 Language Arts: Students reviewed their grades for this quarter, so they be able to explain their grades to parents. Students also reviewed the Embedded Assessment they recently completed. We covered common writing errors in our class and how to change those errors. We will continue to cover those common errors on Tuesday.
8th Language Arts: Students turned in their Form Poems, we reviewed the Back Map of learning to see if we are on target for preparing for the assessment at the end of this unit. Students are also continuing working in Literature Groups. We will work on Grammar Tuesday.
6/7 Language Arts: Students reviewed their grades for this quarter, so they be able to explain their grades to parents. Students also reviewed the Embedded Assessment they recently completed. We covered common writing errors in our class and how to change those errors. We will continue to cover those common errors on Tuesday.
8th Language Arts: Students turned in their Form Poems, we reviewed the Back Map of learning to see if we are on target for preparing for the assessment at the end of this unit. Students are also continuing working in Literature Groups. We will work on Grammar Tuesday.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)