Students have various times to work on assignments or receive help at school: sometimes during class, during morning resource (M/W/F 8:30-9:00am), or after school - if arranged with Ms. Barnes. We welcome Ms. Wyatt as our UO student teacher for 4th period.
Reading
All students should have finished A Soldier's Heart and returned their copy to the school library. Students are studying the theme of the American Dream in relation to the 8th grade Ellis Island unit. They will soon begin studying poetry.
Writing
PAST DUE - Autobiography and BioPoem - edited and typed final drafts were due Tue., May 17th.
PAST DUE - Soldier's Heart study guide (blue book) and vocab chart.
Final Project Posters
Students will begin planning year-end culminating project posters this week. This is an annual tradition for 8th graders; the final products will be displayed in the courtyard for their promotion day. The posters will contain students' best writing assignments from this year, personal images and/or symbols, and a decoratively designed layout with a name alliteration phrase (ie., Crystal's Cachet, or Crystal's Capsule, or Creative Crystal). The design will include a border, a color scheme, spacing, and matting. Things to avoid: overcrowding, no color or too many colors, no images, light pencil sketches, drawing directly on the background paper.
