Mrs. Borth – Middle School Literature
Posted on April 18, 2011, by Jennifer Borth, under Middle School Notes.
Print6th grade – We are currently enjoying One Handed Catch. Students have been writing abstracts to accompany each chapter. They turn these in every five chapters for a grade. We will read Ten Little Indians next; we will finish the year with this. I will provide each student with this novel. We also have only one more vocabulary unit left for this year.
7th grade - We just tested over our Shakespeare Unit and are currently reading “Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe. Students will be writing an essay comparing this short story to the novel Fever which they recently read in science class. We will finish the year with Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. Students will need their own copy of this novel.
8th grade – Wow, how the time has flown. Can you believe high school is just around the corner? To finish the year, we will finish reading Murder on the Orient Express, complete a Holocaust project, one more vocabulary unit, and read Night. Now take a deep breath – it’s a lot but we will finish all of it in class, promise.
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Mrs. Borth – Middle School Literature
Posted on March 7, 2011, by Jennifer Borth, under Middle School Notes.
PrintCurrently, 6th grade is finishing reading The Face on the Milk Carton. The next novel they will begin is One Handed Catch. Students will need to have a copy of this no later than March 21st.
Our 7th graders are studying Shakespeare and are currently working on their Globe Theatre model.
Eighth grade is enjoying an Agatha Christie novel, Murder on the Orient Express. They just completed their essay which compared A Raisin in the Sun to Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. They did an amazing job on these.
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Mrs. Borth – Middle School Literature and English
Posted on December 10, 2009, by Jennifer Borth, under Middle School Notes.
Print7th Grade ELA/Literature
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 16th. I will return these January 4th 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.
8th Grade Literature
We just finished Murder on the Orient Express and will be testing over this novel on December 15th. Students will need the play A Raisin in the Sun when we return on January 4th.
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Mrs. Borth – Middle School English and Literature
Posted on November 11, 2009, by Jennifer Borth, under Middle School Notes.
Print7th Grade ELA
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.
8th Grade Literature
At the request of the 8th 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 8th 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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