Friday, October 25, 2013

Reading: students reviewed setting and character traits for the story "Stray".

Writing: students continued to work on their poetry project, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". Final draft is due October 29th.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Reading: HW is Selection Test #4 that is due tomorrow.

Writing: Students began work on a poetry assignment, "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow". 

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

BOOK REPORT IS DUE TOMORROW AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HOUR!!

English: Continued review of plural/possessive nouns.
Reading: Read the short story "Stray" and identified examples of cause/effect.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

  Reading: Students have a reading comprehension worksheet for homework.  They only need to complete the comprehension side.  We will finish the cause/effect side in class tomorrow.

 English: This is the review week for nouns.  There is a worksheet about appositives for homework.


BOOK REPORT MATERIALS ARE DUE ON THURSDAY!!

Monday, October 21, 2013

1st hour only: Students took a timed writing test. They chose a topic from a list and needed to write a four paragraph analysis of the topic.  It was turned in at the end of the hour.


          BOOK REPORT IS DUE ON THURSDAY!!!

Friday, October 18, 2013

Book Report is due next Thursday, October 24th!!!!

No homework this weekend.

English: Students began working with appositives.
   An appositive is "a group of words added to a sentence to provide more information about the noun."
          ex.  Jennifer, my daughter's friend, is having a birthday party today.
      

                              

Tuesday, October 14 and Wednesday, October 15, 2013