ELA Update

Middle school families,

In English class 7th graders have finished writing their literary analysis papers! They'll be starting the last work that we're reading this year, which is the story "Flowers for Algernon." It brings up many good topics to discuss, such as the power of intelligence and science and the value society places on them.

In 8th grade, we're in a pretty intense part of The Princess Bride (the book) plot. We connected Joseph Campbell's 12 Stages of a Hero's Journey to other books and movies last week. The students will have their last quiz grade for reading on Thursday. They will need to have the 12 Stages memorized in order, like we talked about in class. The other side of the quiz will be identifying sentences as simple, compound, complex, and compound complex. I'm always available if the students have questions! These games below are some we used in class and can be a good study tool: 

The two games we used this week: 

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sentence_types_quiz.htm

Extras: 

http://www.shsu.edu/~txcae/Powerpoints/prepostest/combsent2postest.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/242899.html?AP_rand=2122946425

Thanks to all 8th grade parents who purchased an 8th grade class magazine. I've ordered the magazines and will let you know when they're here. Your support of our school is appreciated. 

Thanks, 

Miss R.