This week in a snapshot:
Projects: Students will work all week on their group cell projects AND study vocabulary for a quiz this Thursday.
7th Grade Reading: We will focus on pulling main idea and details from informative texts dealing with current events. We will also look at how to determine cause and effect while reading texts surrounding the topic of Antebellum America. Poetry Wednesday will be fun! We will read a poem called "Abandoned Farmhouse" and students will learn to annotate poems! Yahoo!
Writing: Today students wrote a narrative as an unassisted writing sample for their files. I will look at these and use them as a guide for improving writing and as a beginning of the year unassisted benchmark. Later this week we will look at the 6 writing traits, make booklets to reference all year and move into our first informative piece of writing.
8th Grade Reading: Students are focusing on pulling out main idea and details, as well as writing about characters, plot and setting with their own read to self book. Later this week we will look farming in early civilizations and read informative texts about that topic. We will also read a ballad poem and use plot boxes to comprehend it. I'm hoping for a replay of them when they performed "The Wreck of the Hesperus" last year!
Homework:
7th Grade--20 minutes of reading each night/fill out reading log (students can study cell vocabulary words as part of this this week)
8th Grade--20 minutes of reading each night/fill out reading log
Please send in items for our class auctions if you're able. Anything goes--kids love candy, $5 gift cards, fun socks, homemade items, and the list goes on!!!!
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