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!