SHOJ - English Language Arts

I will be finalizing an order for Scholastic Wednesday, Nov. 28th. There are more books available if you click the red button below than were on the form I sent with the students. It's a great time to stock up for third quarter!  Please check out the catalog or the reading brochures your students brought home to find books that interest them! Thanks for your generosity in the past. We received lots of new books for our classroom library.  To Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub One-Time Class Activation Code: L7ZJ6 Due by 11/28 *You can also click on the button below to take you to our class. With Scholastic Reading Club: - Every book you buy earns FREE Books for our classroom library - You can choose from handpicked, grade- and reading-level-specific books for your child - You'll find the best values on a variety of formats, including eBooks Each month, your child will bring home Reading Club flyers. Together you can choose from books hand-

8th-grade students, Remember that you are reading the rest of Stave 1 that we didn't finish in class for THURSDAY.  If you are interested in listening to the audiobook as you annotate, this link will be helpful for you:  https://librivox.org/a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens /. Please take your time! The optional Stave 1 questions will be helpful for you!  Thanks, Miss R

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/timeline/nazirise.htm http://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005142 http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.9168051/k.69D4/Children_of_the_Holocaust/apps/nl/newsletter2.asp  --> For #17 in place of the grace products website

We had a great time at our DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) time on Friday -- especially since we were wearing our cozy pajamas!

If you are finished with these questions, and there is still class time left, visit:  A.    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/flash/start_flash.shtml   This is a great website about Victorian children.  Click on “learning” under one of these categories: work, school, play.  After you watch a short video, play the game “Time Capsules: Victorians.”   Links from webquest:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/dickens_timeline_text.html http://charlesdickenspage.com/dickens_london_map.html http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/VictorianEngland.htm http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/dietwh.html http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/schoolday.htm   http://charlesdickenspage.com/reading_dickens.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens http://www.mytimemachine.co.uk/?p=76

8th grade, here are the Kahoots we used in class today if you want to use them to study from: https://play.kahoot.it/#/ k/0ffbecac-5549-48a1-9594-a93540fc85e5 https://play.kahoot.it/#/ k/ebca4bad-2e6b-4497-ab95-75c4626e4631

The seventh graders did a great job at their first Socratic Seminar! We connected an article to the Holocaust as a way to kick off our quarter two novel unit. They did a good job bouncing ideas off each other and speaking publicly to the class.  \

We had so much fun yesterday! Thanks to all the room moms who helped put together great parties. The middle schoolers enjoyed listening to "The Tell-Tale Heart" and practicing inferencing skills. Spooky Edgar Allan Poe set the Halloween mood nicely!

The 8th-grade team did so well today! They placed first at the Bishop Miege meet. It was quite an accomplishment. In the championship round Working together Way to go! 

Thanks to the students who became locker fairies over night! It was so awesome to see all the lockers decorated with positive messages today. I saw students carrying their messages around later, so I know the kind words made an impact. 

Look at all these great props for the 8th grade SCOPE play, "Once a Crook, Always a Crook," which was a fun trip to the Wild West. 

The seventh graders presented their SCOPE Magazine plays today. We loved watching them as a class! Nice work! Rehearsal -- they did a great job organizing and being creative! 

I will be placing an order for Scholastic next Thursday, Oct. 14th. There are more books available if you click the red button below than were on the form I sent with the students. It's a great time to stock up for second quarter!  Please check out the catalog or the reading brochures your students brought home to find books that interest them! Thanks for your generosity in the past. We received lots of new books for our classroom library.  To Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub One-Time Class Activation Code: L7ZJ6 Due by 10/14 *You can also click on the button below to take you to our class.    With Scholastic Reading Club: - Every book you buy earns FREE Books for our classroom library - You can choose from handpicked, grade- and reading-level-specific books for your child - You'll find the best values on a variety of formats, including eBooks Each month, your child will bring home Reading Club flyers. Together you can choose from book

I loved seeing what the students turned in last week. I will take these to Price Chopper soon to enter the contest. The students are excited to see if we will have a winner!

Last Friday, Siena did service for the school, and one group left this beautiful message from Sunday's responsorial psalm for students to see as they left for the weekend. "Come, let us sing joyfully for the Lord!"  8th graders had a great Socratic Circle discussion today on the state of education in the United States. Our Article of the Week posed questions about education, and it was really interesting to hear the students' thoughts. They did a great job expressing themselves and dialoguing with each other! I was impressed.  

7R, Here are the links you need! Ben Kamm is just one of the many amazing heroes of the Holocaust. To help your students understand what life was like for Jewish partisans like Ben, we've put together a  Guided Research Activity , which asks students to gather information from our article “Teens Against Hitler ”  and several other sources, including the  Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation’s fantastic website .  Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: What is a partisan? United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Video Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: Virtual Zemlyanka Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: Videos Yad Vashem: Diary Entry of a Jewish Partisan Yad Vashem: Abba Kovner's Manifesto Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: Why did the partisans fight? Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: Video Biography - Ben Kamm

A student emailed me to post the Kahoot that we played today. If you're interested, here it is! https://play.kahoot.it/#/?quizId=20ca6fab-b7cb-461d-a0c3-3a295eef2b25  

8th graders enjoyed making tear-able puns for the hallway today. We had a good chuckle over a few of them! Here they are with their cheesiest faces.  Both 7th and 8th graders have their test tomorrow. We reviewed in class today with a Kahoot. 

I loved reading the 7th grade's personal metaphors. They creatively described why they are like another object or animal. Great job!

Students have been gearing up for their figurative language test next week, which will happen on Wednesday, Sept. 28th for both 7th and 8th grades. They have all of their study materials after today. Both grades are also working on their Bag a Book project this week. I always love seeing what they come up with! 8th graders worked hard -- and had fun -- with their allusions stories! They were so excited to share.  Seventh graders found figurative language outside. One group had peace and quiet, mostly writing about the caterpillars and geese. The other group observed kindergarten recess, so their sentences had a lot more action! Both groups did a really nice job. 

We've been busy this week in English class! Seventh grade students are starting to work with our figurative language terms. We had fun playing allusion Bingo the past two days! They know that they should be studying their words for a test on figurative language that we will have in a couple weeks. Eighth graders have also been working on figurative language in reading, and they will have a test in several weeks too. In writing, we have been focusing on subjects and verbs and how to make quality sentences with only two strong words. They worked so hard writing their two-word sentence prompts. The finished products were awesome! Allusions bingo Trying to guess the clue Working on our two-word sentence prompts Finished products! Here are some great finished prompts: