This is the last week to send new pajamas for our Scholastic Pajama Drive sponsored by K-8 and high school student council. We are also still collecting canned food and toys for tots. Everything helps!
Projects: We will finish instruction on Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest tomorrow. Students will create comic strips that depict an animal that has adapted to its environment as their final product. We will work on these Wednesday, Thursday, Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday will be a gallery walk so we can see everybody's creations. Next semester we will start social studies and do The 1920's, Great Depression, and World War 2. It's going to be awesome!
7th Grade Reading: As we finish frontloading information on World War 1, students will begin a project that demonstrates what they've learned. They will create a 3-D pyramid that explains several different aspects of WWI. Students will continue building stamina by reading the books that they love and writing responses to their reading.
Writing: Students are working hard to finish "Day in the Life" narratives. They are doing such a FABULOUS job on these. I am so impressed with how each student's writing has improved over the course of the semester.
8th Grade Reading: We will finish reading King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and complete a 3-D project that depicts one of the stories in the book. Students will be expected to focus on theme, characters (protagonists and antagonists), setting, and plot. Should be a fun way to end the semester!
Next Thursday we will have a class auction and do various holiday related activities. Don't forget students can bring in items to put in each other's stockings on this day. Also, we will be watching the movie Elf.
Homework:
7th: IXL P.1, Flocabulary main idea sheet (due Thursday)
8th: Poetry Annotations due Wednesday; read "Sir Percivale" in King Arthur for Tuesday's discussion
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