SHOJ - English Language Arts

Dear 7th grade families, The students will learn about this in class tomorrow, but we will be dressing down while we watch The Outsiders  movie, as the classes have done in years past. The attire must be school appropriate. Students choose if they are a Soc or a Greaser. We will be doing this on Tuesday, March 11th. There will be no fake weapons, cigarettes, leggings, or Ugg-style boots. We will be brainstorming in class what each group might have worn. Thanks! Please email us if you have questions. Miss R. and Mrs. W.

I wanted to share some fun pictures that we had from class this week. 8th graders brought in items that were meaningful to them after Jem and Scout find items in a knothole on the way home from school in our novel. They did a great job speaking with great eye contact and volume. I was impressed with how many incorporated pieces of their faith and their families in their presentations. I'm blessed by them! Check it out! We've also finished our maps of Maycomb and today got to hear from our outside speaker who had taught  To Kill a Mockingbird  for 20 years before she retired. She was a wealth of knowledge, and the kids asked good questions. We're also working on compound sentences, which will be our next language test. Students are reading the court room scenes of our novel and studying their vocabulary words for the vocab test Monday. 8th graders also had fun interviewing 5th and 6th graders for their Exchange City trip. It was fun to see the grades work to...

7th grade parents, We are in the second half of The Outsiders. We will be watching the movie at the end of the book, and it is rated PG-13. Please let us know if you do not want your child to watch it. If we do not hear from you, we will assume you are OK with this. Have a nice night! -- Miss R. and Mrs. W.

Upcoming Scholastic Order Dear Families, We'll be placing our order for February on Feb. 28th. I've got lots of coupons that Scholastic sent me for Valentine's Day. They are for a free $5 book. If your child didn't pick one up at home, you can email me, and I can send it home! Thanks for all your support of our classroom. We've already gotten a nice stack of books for our class library with the Scholastic bonus points.  Please check out the catalog or the reading brochures your students brought home to find books that interest them!  To Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub One-Time Class Activation Code: L7ZJ6 Due by 2/28 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 ...

Middle school families, It's been busy in English class these past couple weeks, except of course with our nice long break last week! Eighth graders have finished part one of To Kill a Mockingbird. We've made maps to help us envision Maycomb. Scout's making us laugh, and Atticus and Miss Maudie are sharing their wisdom. Students are bringing items from home with meaning to them to put in their "knothole" next Monday. This will be a fun day to see what everyone brings. We're finishing up prepositions this week and will move onto compound and complex sentences next week. The students will have notes in their notebooks and their grammar books to study from! Next week, we'll have a guest speaker to explain more of our novel to us, and we'll be getting ready for our vocabulary quiz over words from Ch. 1-17. We've been back to our blogs -- which we were gone from for a while -- so be sure to check those out (see links tab above). 7th graders are half...