English Update

7th graders Skype with a class in Iowa for the Global Read Aloud. 

In 8th grade, the past two weeks, we worked on figurative language. Though students reviewed this last year, we refreshed our brains! Many of the questions from the pre-test were on the test. On their tests, students took a passage they had not seen from St. Therese and applied their knowledge of figurative language for literary analysis. 8th graders also worked on online citations for their patriotism essays, so we can avoid plagiarism.

We finished up finding subjects and verbs after working for several weeks and playing lots of parts of speech games during MTSS! 8th graders have been working on hard this week on their presentations of advanced parts of speech -- like participles and direct/indirect objects. They will be teaching the class next week, and I'm looking forward to it. They've also started the Global Read Aloud book for middle school, Out of My Mind. 

In 7th grade, we finished our ITBS tests! We also finished up finding subjects and verbs after working for several weeks and playing games during MTSS. Out of My Mind. 
They also worked on figurative language and saw many similar questions from their pre-test. As a start to literary analysis, they practiced writing a short essay on their test over a passage we had gone over in class. They also are presenting parts of speech next week -- the more basic ones: adverbs, prepositions, interjections. They had the chance to Skype with a class from Iowa for the Global Read Aloud book,

After next week, 8th graders will begin a unit on narrative and reflective writing. 7th graders will be working on their patriotism essays and how to recognize conflict in a story.