Class Update
We finished tracking the national March Book Madness, which ended this week. The students had fun voicing their opinions and talking about books.
Students have been working hard this week. Way to go! They have finished their reading state tests and have moved onto math. Please be sure they are getting good sleep and breakfast. Thanks!
7th graders finished writing their rough drafts of their Outsiders literary analysis papers. They are spending their writing class in the next couple weeks editing them. I'm really proud of them for the character analysis papers they created. We are now working on SCOPE magazine -- learning about tone, text evidence, and text structure. The article one class read about phone usage really created a buzz!
8th graders are also working on SCOPE magazine, which is helping them hone their literary analysis skills. I was really impressed today with how much they've grown since the beginning of the year in their ability to track the mood of a story. I am reading The Princess Bride aloud to them, and we will be applying Joseph Campbell's 12 Stages of a Hero's Quest to this story -- and many other adventure tales and movies they've seen. We are working on complex sentences and also practiced writing comparison and contrast essays last week. This will come in handy for the new state writing assessment.
As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Students have been working hard this week. Way to go! They have finished their reading state tests and have moved onto math. Please be sure they are getting good sleep and breakfast. Thanks!
7th graders finished writing their rough drafts of their Outsiders literary analysis papers. They are spending their writing class in the next couple weeks editing them. I'm really proud of them for the character analysis papers they created. We are now working on SCOPE magazine -- learning about tone, text evidence, and text structure. The article one class read about phone usage really created a buzz!
8th graders are also working on SCOPE magazine, which is helping them hone their literary analysis skills. I was really impressed today with how much they've grown since the beginning of the year in their ability to track the mood of a story. I am reading The Princess Bride aloud to them, and we will be applying Joseph Campbell's 12 Stages of a Hero's Quest to this story -- and many other adventure tales and movies they've seen. We are working on complex sentences and also practiced writing comparison and contrast essays last week. This will come in handy for the new state writing assessment.
As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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