week of 9/8
Welcome back students and parents!
This year promises to be very exciting and challenging for all of us. This year, I will be teaching a variety of classes, so be sure to look for your child’s class information. I will usually update the blog once a week, posting assignments, due dates, and upcoming projects or essays.
General information: For ALL classes, Reading Logs are due every Friday. Reading log pages are available to print from my web site. Remember parents, your child is to read 10 pages per night (PreAP is 20 pages), then you sign off once they have orally summarized their reading to you. Every Friday is library day, so students will have ample opportunities to check out and return books.
Last week, English students turned in their first essay assignment, “About Me.” I enjoyed reading them and was pleased with their current writing skills. I sent home a rubric which I will use to grade all of their future essays. Please be sure you received it; there was a letter attached that needs to be signed and returned.
This week:
For ALL classes: We will begin taking notes on Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes. Students are to make flash cards for each and review them each night. There will be quizzes and a test in the future TBA.
7th PreAP English: Grammar Pre-test (in class), Grammar book work (finish as homework), read “The Sea Devil” and be ready for questions (homework). Students will be taking a quiz over both “The Monkey Garden” and “The Sea Devil”. Also, we will be taking more Elements of Fiction notes, and students will begin working on Nouns and Verbs. I will be sending home their first big project on Wednesday and Thursday – it will be due mid-October.
7th English/Reading: Grammar Pre-test (in class), Grammar book work (in class – finish as homework), read “Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes, and do the margin questions and pages 23-25 in their Interactive Readers. Students will begin working on Nouns and Verbs, and will also receive their first big project on Wednesday. It will be due mid-October. By Thursday, students will begin working on a plot chart for the story “Thank You, M’am”. It will be due the beginning of next week. Next week we will begin reading our novel: “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.” Students will be reading in class and will have most work done in class, but there may be related writing assignments finished as homework, along with grammar exercises and practices.
8th Reading: Students are to read “Raymond’s Run” and “A Mother in Mannville”; both can be found in their literature textbook and Interactive Reader. In their Interactive Readers, students are to do the margin questions for “Raymond’s Run” as well as pages 17-19. Students will begin making plot charts for “A Mother in Mannville” towards the end of the week, and will be due the beginning of next week.
