English Update

Thanks to the students who came with me to the writing workshop today. We had a great time and learned a lot! For anyone interested, a summer writing conference was announced. It sounds like a great event! 

2014 Summer Student Writing Project
July 7 – 17, Monday – Thursday, 9am – Noon
UMKC Volker Campus

The Student Writing Project’s atmosphere is relaxed, friendly and geared toward intellectual and creative excellence. Students entering grades 4-12 who like to write will love the individual attention they receive while drafting, sharing and revising their work within a creative and supportive writing community.

To find more information and to register, visit this website.  

We have read over 200,000 pages in middle school this year! Both of the 8th grade classes have read over 50,000 pages, which Price Chopper celebrates by sending us supplies for a party. Keep up the reading! 

This week and next week, 7th graders are working to format a hook, thesis sentence, and quotes to defend their analysis of an Outsiders character. We are writing this essay in class. 7th graders are also looking at complex sentences and how they can strengthen paragraphs.

8th graders also created thesis sentences to practice organizing an essay about To Kill a Mockingbird. We did this in class. They are working with complex and compound-complex sentences and exploring a new vocabulary program. I will be reading excerpts of The Princess Bride by William Goldman aloud to them because they will be writing a creative adventure story in May, once we finish.

-- Miss R.