Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Week of October 13-17

This week we are starting to wrap up our novels.

On Friday, October 17, ALL GRADES are starting an in-class final assessment for novels. This will be an open-book and open-ISN short answer test.

7th Grade Homework:
Monday: Ch 21
Tuesday: Ch 22
Wednesday: Ch 23
Thursday: Ch 24

8th Grade Homework:
Monday: Ch 29-31
Tuesday: Ch 32- 34
Wednesday: Ch 35- 37
Thursday: 38-39

Students may need to finish a Bio Poem from homework on Tuesday night, Oct 14.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Week of October 6-10

All students are working on persuasive essays this week. The essays are related to the the content in Touching Spirit Bear and Mockingbird. We will work on these essays Monday and Tuesday and the essays will be due on Friday.

7th grade is reading chapters 14-20 in TSB. As always, the reading and questions are due on Friday and students may read as much as they like, but these are my suggestions:
Monday: Chapters 14-15
Tuesday: 16-17
Wednesday:18-19
Thursday: 20

8th grade is reading chapters 19-28 in Mockingbird. As always, reading, questions, and booklets are due on Friday and students may read as much as they like, but these are my suggestions:
Monday: 19-21
Tuesday: 22-24
Wednesday: 25-27
Thursday: 28

8B (5th period) should also be working on the author study project. There will be a project work day on Wednesday, the early release day. We will also have work days next Monday (Oct 13) and presentations will be October 14-15.