Enjoy your summer, gang. Stay safe, make wise choices and breathe deeply. We will see you at the end of summer.
It's been a fabulous year!
Congratulations 8th graders! You did it!
Enjoy your summer, gang. Stay safe, make wise choices and breathe deeply. We will see you at the end of summer. It's been a fabulous year!
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Bring in notes, or record them on Easybib. Complete a plan or outline for writing your essay on Wednesday. Finish reading the Outsiders.
Finish the vocabulary for chapters 10,11, and 12. There will be a final quiz before we watch the movie, starting Thursday. *Read chapters 7-9 and complete recording the vocabulary for each chapter.
Everyone wrote phenomenally, creative paragraphs for our quiz on Friday. Enjoy your weekend. *Book Review - due Friday, June 5. Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief. So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost Read this poem tonight, try to analyze it. Bring in notes about it tomorrow. Read Chapter 6 - Outsiders Vocabulary - Make sure you have defined all of the words, using the context or your dictionary. We will have a quiz on Friday. Change projects will be presented on Tuesday, May 19th, at 6:00pm. Come support our hard work with questions, comments, and "grant money" (at the door). ELA Assignments this week:
Tuesday: Read chapter 6 in Outsiders. Read the following poem. Analyze it (see paper). Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief. So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost Wednesday: Read chapter 7 in Outsiders. Thursday: Battle of the books will take place, finally! Quick Writes from this week: Wed. - "Innocent" - Cherry says that Ponyboy and Johnny have seen too much to be innocent. What makes someone innocent? What kinds of things does someone have to see to not be innocent? Is this bad? Is this good? Thurs. - "The Other Side" - Think of someone that appears to have no problems. Why does their life seem perfect or close to perfect? Fri. - "Rat Race" - "Rat race is the perfect name for it," Cherry said. "We're always going and going and going, and never asking where." *Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? Or continually searching for a "thing" to satisfy you(and possibly never finding it)? Write about what this brings up for you. Battle of Books is due today! Sorry if this seems like a lot, but you have had extra weeks to work on it. 7B QW - "The Other Side" - Think of someone that appears to have no problems. Why does their life seem perfect or close to perfect? *Read chapter 3 *Vocabulary - chapter 3 *Plot chart - fill in during read aloud *Revise and edit your change paper. Both groups: "Battle of the Books" - Friday! 7A QW- same as above *Read chapter 4 *Vocabulary - chapter 4 and plot chart (read aloud) *Sentences - review of the variety of styles. *Revise and edit your change paper, too. The Outsiders 7A QW - Innocent Read aloud part of chapter 3 *Finish close reading of chapter 3 in/out of class *Vocabulary for chapter 3 *Sentence worksheet (review of styles) 7B QW -Outsider/Insider Read aloud chapter 2 *Finish close reading of chapter 2 in/out of class *Vocabulary for chapter 2 *Slang activity |
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