SHOJ - English Language Arts

I enjoyed celebrating Halloween today with everyone. There were some great costumes! This week in class, we've enjoyed watching 8th-grade students present the video narratives and read their poems. This project always highlights the wonderful aspects of each child! Seventh graders learned a bit about The War of the Worlds  and the panic it caused on Halloween in 1938. They did a great job presenting the scenes as skits. Next week we'll be working on building background information for the 8th graders on Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era as we begin A Christmas Carol . Seventh graders will be continuing to learn about the context of the Holocaust before we begin our play about Anne Frank. Reminder to all 8th graders, your permission slips for A Christmas Carol are due Monday. Have a great Halloween weekend! -- Miss R.

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 ...

Check out the narratives from this year's 8th grade! Colin  Mica   Hunter   Jacob  Kaley   Jack David   Tristan Audrey Kaija Lauren Amanda Mary  Connor   Matthew  Cole  Jackie   Brianna  Tony  Briana  Caleb   Thanks for sharing your children with us. Katie   Cait  Sam Tim Jacob   Sarah Madeline Andres  Knox Joey   Maya Peter   Page   Rebekah Rachel Logan Audrey   Alexis   Chase Cole Addi

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

For students in  my Cardinal Time group, we will use this link to continue learning about how our brains work! http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html

If you weren't able to come to conferences, here are the ELA standards that 7th and 8th graders have been introduced to in Quarter 1. The Archdiocesan Standards do an awesome job of infusing faith into the various concepts! We'll keep working to master a couple of these standards during this next quarter, as well focus on some of the other ones. Seventh standards Eighth standards  Have a nice night!

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.graceproducts.com/fmnc/main.htm http://annefrank.com/