Thanks to the students who came with me to the writing workshop today. We had a great time and learned a lot! For anyone interested, a summer writing conference was announced. It sounds like a great event! 2014 Summer Student Writing Project July 7 – 17, Monday – Thursday, 9am – Noon UMKC Volker Campus The Student Writing Project’s atmosphere is relaxed, friendly and geared toward intellectual and creative excellence. Students entering grades 4-12 who like to write will love the individual attention they receive while drafting, sharing and revising their work within a creative and supportive writing community. To find more information and to register, visit this website . We have read over 200,000 pages in middle school this year! Both of the 8th grade classes have read over 50,000 pages, which Price Chopper celebrates by sending us supplies for a party. Keep up the reading! This week and next week, 7th graders are working to format a hoo...
Students, I encourage you to take the chance to fill out this survey! A group is putting together a March Madness of books. Books that students have liked fall on both the Middle Grades and Young Adult categories, so we will follow both of these brackets as a class. The form will close next Tuesday! Middle Grades: http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com/mg-novel-bracket.html Young Adult: http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com/ya-bracket.html
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