All power point and poster book report grades were written in students' agendas on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Please refer to your son/daughter's agenda to see how they did. Students who received a poor grade most likely skipped a section on the project. They may complete the missing section to earn points back on their project grade.
I am still missing some short stories. Students who did not turn in a short story received a referral and need to get this assignment completed asap. Students who are missing work will receive an incomplete on their report card and will end up in summer school if the missing work is not completed.
Writing A,B, and C
All writing classes are finishing up chapter 2 on nouns. This test will be on Friday, December 4. Please review direct and indirect objects as well as prepositional phrases. This seems to be the most difficult part of the chapter. Remember McDougall Littell has a link to the right of my page where students can access grammar practice activities.
All students will be getting their topics for the 8th grade research paper this week. This is the biggest writing assignment of the year and a mandatory assignment for graduation. Most of the work for the research paper will be done in class, but the final product will be completed at home. The students will have two months to complete this assignment.
Reading 8A
Students will be reading the Lady and the Tiger this week. The assessment for this story will not be until next week. The vocabulary words are as follows: barbarians, savage, jealousy, gladiators, willful, subject, arena, and justice.
Reading 8B
Students are finishing up with The Ransom of Red Chief. The assessment for this story will be on Thursday, December 3rd. Please remember to review the term irony and the following vocabulary words: collaborate, commend, comply, diatribe, impudent, palatable, pervade, proposition, ransom, and surreptitiously.
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