BOOK REPORT DUE OCTOBER 29TH. NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Please scroll down for directions in last post. If you would like to do a power point and do not have the program you can download it for free for 60 days at the following address: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/default.aspx
All writing classes have finished the rough drafts of their short stories. Peer-Editing will begin this week. The final copy will be due the first week of November.
All writing classes will be having their first major grammar test on Friday, October 30th. Please begin reviewing with your son/daughter asap. There are links to the left of this page for activities in the Language Network Book. Just click on 8th grade grammar and then click on Chapter One: The Sentence and its parts. We will play Grammar Jeopardy the day before the test to review.
Reading 8A will have a quiz this Wednesday on No-Guitar Blues. Please don't forget to study the vocabulary words, both definitions and spelling. List: mission, conjunto, distracted, perpetual clock, turnover, empanada, deceitful, zombie, secondhand, papas
Reading 8B and 8C will have a quiz this Wednesday on Stop the Sun. Please don't forget to study the vocabulary word, both definitions and spelling. List: chant, dry, founder, inert, persist, taunted, ailment, clamor, consequence, impartial
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