Permission Slip, Lit Circle Sharing, Book Project

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Movie - Swing Kids - permission slip due Tue., Nov. 30th

As part of the broader study of cultures, relationships and conflicts, the 8th grade Language Arts groups will be shown this historical fiction video about a groups of students in the Hitler Youth League and the resistant "Swing Kids."

Lit Circles

Groups finish sharing about their reading selections from the textbook; audience takes notes

Post - Thanksgiving

week-long writing assignment

Cultural Book Project - written project due Wed., Dec. 15th

Read daily and follow the directions in your project packet

Left side of book mark - due 11/24

Plan and parent signature - due 11/24 (ok 11/29)

Lit Circle Sharing and Cultural Book Project

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Lit Circles

Groups finish sharing about their reading selections from the textbook

Quick Edit

Yamodo

Creative word/picture assignment

Cultural Book Project - Due 15th

Read, read, read - and follow the directions in your project packet

Left side of book mark - due 11/24

Plan and parent signature - due 11/24 (ok 11/29)

Cultural Book Project and Vocab 4b

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Classwork/Homework
"Thanksgiving Guest" essay - due Thu., Nov. 18th

Multicultural literature circle sharing
Cultural book project instructions presented - project due Dec. 15th

Journal Prompts (5 entries, 1 per day)

Theme - "Cultural Diversity"

Vocabulary #4b

Definitions - due Wed., Nov. 17th
Cloze sentences (fill in the blank) - due Thu., Nov. 18th
Quiz - Fri., Nov. 19th
peruse
porous
promontory
prone
qualm
recourse
residue
solicitous
staid
sustain

"Thanksgiving Guest" and Lit Circles

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Thanksgiving Guest
Write a descriptive two paragraph essay about a special Thanksgiving dinner you create.
Include details about the special guest, the meal, conversation, entertainment, and other guests.
The assignment sheet listing requirements was provided in class.

Literature Circles
The week we are focusing on culturally diverse selections from our textbook:
"Mrs. Flowers"
"The Circuit"
"Camp Harmony"
"Raymond's Run"
"Ribbons"
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
"The Medicine Bag"
"An Hour with Abuelo"

Everyday Edits
Grammar practice - this week's focus is punctuation.

This week we started our culturally diverse literature circles:

Vocabulary
Yamodo - creative word/picture assignment

Writing Portfolios - Poetry- Vocab 4a

Homework/Classwork Assistance

Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes or Ms. Hagerty.

Book Report - PAST DUE (10/27)

We've introduced and discussed the "Book Report Guidelines - Standard Format for Fiction" which follows a 5-paragraph writing format. This was to be used for our book reports, which were due October 27th.

Classwork

This week we will evaluate our Halloween literature circles, set up our writing portfolios, read poetry, review punctuation.

Four kinds of sentences - due Fri., Nov 5th

declarative, imperative, interrogative exclamatory

Write 2 sentences for each, 8 sentences total.

Journal Prompts (5 entries, 1 per day)

Theme - "Books"

Vocabulary #4a

Definitions - due Wed., Nov. 3rd
Cloze sentences (fill in the blank) - due Thu., Nov. 4th

Quiz - Fri., Nov. 5th
annul

blasé

bolster

deplore

frivolous

muster

nonentity

obsess

ornate

oust