7^th Grade

Students were assigned an extra credit assignment in February for ELA. This assignment will be due March 12^th. Since this is right before Spring Break, I will be unable to accept any late projects. We are currently studying adverbs and will have our Adverb Test on March 23^rd.  The next unit we will cover in ELA will be adjectives.

We have finished reading TheWesting Game, and students were given a choice of three essays to complete. These will be competed during class time. Students will turn in a rough draft March 12^th and a final copy will be due March 29^th. Please continue to check my website for important test and project due dates.

8^th Grade

We have just finished reading A Raisin in the Sun and have turned in rough drafts of our essay. We will read the short story “A Monkey’s Paw” and then begin our Holocaust unit. Students will be assigned specific topics of the Holocaust in which they will be producing lessons and teaching the class. This will take us several weeks to research and deliver lessons. Students will work in groups and will be given specific instructions the upcoming weeks. Please continue to check my website for important test and project due dates.

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We are currently still working on our research paper. Students have turned in their outlines and are now working on their rough drafts. These must be submitted to www.turnitin.com by December 16^th. I will return these January 4^th in order for students to make corrections. The rough draft and the work cited page will both be completed during class time.

We are working on a newspaper project in literature class right now. Students needed a Sunday addition of the Dallas Morning News. Students will dissect this paper by locating specific articles and sections of the paper and answering many questions while creating their own articles for certain sections. We will continue on this project until Christmas break. Upon return, students will need to the novel Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.

8^th Grade Literature

We just finished Murder on the Orient Express and will be testing over this novel on December 15^th. Students will need the play A Raisin in the Sun when we return on January 4^th.

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We are currently working on our research paper which coordinates with your child’s science fair project. Instead of writing a research paper in English class and again for science, Ms. Robb and I have combined these assignments into one paper. Students will receive a content grade in science for their paper and a grammar grade in English for the same paper.

In literature we are currently acting out the play Twelve Angry Men. However, 7A like to call it Twelve Angry Women. They are doing a wonderful job. Please remind your student that their questions that accompany each act are turned in for grading at the completion of the act.

8^th Grade Literature

At the request of the 8^th grade, we are currently reading Murder on the Orient Express. This murder mystery has the students quite perplexed. We have also begun working in our ISEE book once a week. I believe that most of the 8^th graders will be taking their ISEE exam in January. If you have not yet reserved a date, please visit http://www.iseetest.org to reserve your location and time. These tests will fill up quickly.

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This year I am combining an ELA research paper with their science project research paper. This paper will take six weeks to write, so students need to be thinking of exactly what they want to do as an experiment. They may still work with a partner, but they will write their papers individually. They will receive a grade in both Science and English for this paper.

8th Grade
We are finishing The Giver. Please check my website or your child’s planner for test dates. We will also have a writing assignment that will be assigned after the novel is finished. Just as a reminder, students still need to take their on-line quizzes this year. They can be found at www.vocabtest.com. We have vocabulary quizzes every two weeks.

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