SHOJ - English Language Arts

Link you need today: http://linoit.com/users/rajewski/canvases/Christmas%20Carol%20Vocab%2C%203%20staves

Christmas Present Jacob Marley Christmas Future Emily Grey made these fantastic representations of the Christmas ghosts! 

The show was wonderful, and the students really enjoyed it! Thanks to all the parents for driving. This day is always a highlight!

8th-grade students, Remember that you are reading the rest of Stave 1 that we didn't finish in class for Friday. 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! 

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

We enjoyed watching the scenes the students prepared for today! They are looking forward to the play tomorrow.

In 7th grade this week, we've been reading A Diary of Anne Frank.  Students voted to finish their maps of the attic by next Wednesday. We will be finishing Act 1 in class, and they will be reading Act 2, Scenes 1-2 for next Friday. We will be taking a Membean quiz next week too. For any students who want to take advantage of their project work day on 11/24 (the Monday before Thanksgiving), they should be caught up on Membean. I also challenged the students to participate in the parish reading book with 33 Days to Morning Glory. Any students who read the consecration portion can count that as double pages for a book talk (since it bears both academic and spiritul fruit!) when they come back from Christmas break. The parish is planning to finish it by Jan. 1. Seventh graders did a wonderful job with their Socratic seminar on Monday. They are deep thinkers! Upcoming due dates: Project 12/5 Test over Holocaust and Anne Frank on 12/11  In eighth grade this week,...

Students received their quarter two projects today. We will work with these as we work through our reading this quarter. I've posted them in case you need an extra copy! 8th graders, for your vocab words, some of you wanted to type them and asked me to post the template.  Please work ahead!  Due Dates: 8th -- Dec. 15th, Check-in days -- Nov. 21st, Dec. 5th 7th -- Dec. 5th 7th grade rubric 8th grade rubric 8th grade vocab box template  (Once you click on this, click the download button at the top, which looks like an arrow pointing down). 

8th-grade students, Remember that you are reading the rest of Stave 1 that we didn't finish in class for Monday. 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

Lab First lab activity: Visit  http://www.pat heos.com/blogs/markdroberts/series/christmas-according-to-dickens/ . Scroll down to the second entry " Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas?." Read that whole entry (until you see "The Real Business of Christmas, according to Charles Dickens.") Summarize this article in a post on your blog. If you are interested in this topic, feel free to read other sections on the page.  Second lab activity: Visit the Kidblog site and create another post for the day. I've given you an optional prompt.  Third lab activity (if you have time): Quiz yourself (under Spelling Bee or Learn this List) on Act 1 vocab words.  https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/232629#view=notes  My username is sarah.rajewski@shoj.org, and the password is learn. 

The past two weeks have been full of days where students had the chance to learn something outside of school! The next upcoming field trip will be the 8th graders trip to see A Christmas Carol. The permission slips for this are due Monday. Let me know if you have any questions! Congrats to our Scholar's Bowl students who competed at either the tournament at St. Thomas Aquinas or Bishop Miege. They were fun to watch as they showed lots of knowledge! The last group (due to rainout) recently attended Timber Ridge. They had to work as a team to complete obstacles and keep each other safe on the tower. The group I was watching took great skills back, which they can use to work together as a house. Finally, the seventh graders visited the National Archives for an exhibit on the Holocaust. We didn't know this until we visited, but all students are welcome to contact the National Archives if they are working on a project and want first-hand documents for ...

These are all on your worksheeet about Charles Dickens. Here they are so that you don't have to type them!  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/dickens.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/flash/start_flash.shtml http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dickens/tour.html