Mon., January 3rd, 2011 - Mon., January 31st, 2011

Welcome Back!

7th grade English Language Arts:
Students are finishing reading, discussing, and correcting the follow-up assignment with Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki Tikki Tavi" short story, and upon it's completion will move into their Poetry Unit. (Major assignments and project due dates pertaining to the Poetry Unit will be posted soon.)

8th grade English Language Arts:
For the month of January the students will be expected to read, discuss, complete assignments, and a project for the book they are reading with their Literature Circle group. Each group consists of 4-5 students and will meet daily, in class, to discuss their assigned readings and assignments. When students finish their books, they are to complete their final project. The novels, reading assignments, and final project are all due at the end of the month (Monday, January 31st, 2011). For homework, expect your students to be reading daily and completing a page from their green packet.

8th grade Advanced English Language Arts:
The students are reading John Steinbeck's "The Pearl", completing reading response questions and class dicussions with the novel. In addition to their readings and response questions, students are expected to be studying their weekly SAT vocabulary words. Test will be every Friday and new SAT Vocabulary words will also be distributed every Friday for the remainder of the year. (Additional assignments, projects, and due dates for this month will be posted soon.)