ELA Update

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To finish out the year, students are working hard to wrap up their novels.

7th graders are finishing their diary for Anne Frank, which is due Monday. They will have a test next Thursday over Anne Frank and the information on their Holocaust webquest with a matching section for their Holocaust vocab words (both in their ELA notebooks). We'll spend some time watching a movie about Anne Frank next week.

8th graders seemed to really enjoy going to A Christmas Carol this morning. They made some great comparisons between the play and the novel they read. We have been working on their theme essays in class. Their projects for A Christmas Carol will be due next Thursday. We'll also be watching a version of our novel. In language, they have been working on verbs, especially active and passive verbs. Next week, we will work some more with verbs. They will have a test over A Christmas Carol and their verbs information during the last week of school before Christmas. They can go over their notes about verbs and also information we glued in their notebooks about Christmas Carol (including the Charles Dickens Webquest) to help them study.

To work with active and passive verbs, check out:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/05/ (notes)
http://quizlet.com/5403501/passive-and-active-voice-flash-cards/ (game)
http://learnzillion.com/lessons/1568-use-active-and-passive-voice-deliberately-to-put-emphasis-on-the-action-or-actor (video to explain)

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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