Happy March to all of you! The year is flying by, and I can't believe we only have 2 1/2 months of school left.
Projects: Students are finishing up their journals and next week we will review the water cycle and rock cyle. Students will memorize and perform rap songs as a culmination to this science unit. They seem to be very excited about that!
8th Grade Reading: We will continue to read To Kill a Mockingbird for the next few weeks. Students are working on collecting evidence for their chosen theme to this book, and will complete the final exam upon finishing the book.
7th Grade Reading: Students are enjoying The Maze Runner. It's very action packed and filled with suspense. As we read, students are collecting evidence for their final exam. We are also making novel charts that display figurative language, important quotes, bad decisions, adjectives, etc. throughout the novel.
Writing: This week, we are working on one of the SBAC (Smarter Balanced) performance tasks for writing. Students must complete 3 questions, then write an essay using sources that are provided to them. We have worked very hard on writing evidence-based essays this year. The students have written several and they all seem to have a good grasp of how to do this. I'm very confident that they will do very well come test time in April. :)
Please, please send in any spare change for our ongoing money drive for the Fallon Youth Club. This fundraiser is sponsored by Student Council, and we would love for our class to win the next class trip to Maverik!
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