2/23/16

English 7 - Friday, 2/26 - Adjective unit test. Folders are due at test time.
English 8 - Monday, 2/29 - Adjective unit test. Folders are due at test time.

2/22/16

Eng 8 Due Tuesday, 2/23 - English handout exercise 14.

2/19/16

Eng 7 - due Tuesday, 2/23 - English handout exercise 19.
Lit 6 and 7 - Remember that there is a vocab test on Thursday, 2/25.

2/18/16

Lit 8 - Due Monday, 2/22 - vocab worksheet, p. 15.

2/17/16

Eng 8 - Thursday, 2/18 - test on limiting adjectives.
Lit 6 - Due Thursday, 2/18 - compound words, p.19
Lit 7 - Due Thursday, 2/18 - compound words, p.19

2/12/16

English 7 - Tuesday, 2/16 - test on limiting adjectives - numeral, article, and pronominal (demonstrative, possessive, distributive, indefinite, and interrogative).

2/10/16

Lit 8 - Due Thursday, 2/11 - vocab (adverbs) worksheet, page 12.
Lit 7 - Due Thursday, 2/11 - vocab (compound words) worksheet, page 18.
Lit 6 - Due Thursday, 2/11 - vocab (compound words) worksheet, page 18.
English 7 - Due Thursday, 2/11 - Handout exercise 48 old.

2/9/16

English 8 - Due Wednesday, 2/10 - English handout exercise 51 old.

2/8/16

English 8 - Due Tuesday, 2/9 - handout exercise 11.

2/5/16

7th grade parents, Please ask your child to see the grades on the 2 sentence unit tests.
7th Lit: Due Tuesday, 2/9 - Antonyms worksheet, page 17.

2/4/16

8th grade parents - Please ask to see your child's grades on the 2 sentence unit tests.
Lit 7 - Due Friday, 2/5 - Journal check.
10/20 Ideal Life
10/27 Worst Sin
11/13 Lottery
12/8 Throw
12/11 Reputation
1/5 Chains
1/14 Future

2/3/16

Lit 6 - Monday, 2/8 - Journal check
12/16 Help
1/6 - Cowboy/cowgirl
1/11 - Pet
1/20 - Oscar, Debbie, Buster, or Sancho?
2/3 - New Kid
Literature 7 - Holocaust Survivor project, due Friday, February 19.

Holocaust Survivors Research Paper

Due Friday, February 19, 2016

            Research a survivor of the Holocaust.  Start your search at www.ushmm.org. This is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Click on Personal Histories and then select a category, Children, Individuals, etc.  When you select a survivor, you must also do a general search on the person’s name to find additional information. You should include the person’s name, date and place of birth, and general information on his or her life.  You should also include what happened to the person during the war and what kind of experiences he or she had.  Also tell what happened to the person after the war.

Paper requirements:

Cover sheet with the person’s name and a picture or graphic.  You should also include your name and the due date. You may use any font and type size for the cover, but use black ink for the words.

The body of the paper should include the information listed above. It should be a minimum of five paragraphs with at least five sentences in each paragraph.  You must put all information into your own words.  You may not copy and paste sections into your paper.

You must have a bibliography listing the websites where you found the information you included in your report.

For the body of the paper and bibliography you must use:

·        Times new Roman font

·        12-point type size

·        Double spaced

·        Black ink

You will lose 20 points if you do not follow the above format for font, type size, spacing, or ink.

2/2/16

Lit/English 7
Due Wed. 2/3 - antonyms worksheet, page 16.
Wed. and Thursday 2/3 and 2/4  - Sentence unit test. Folders due on Thursday.
Thursday, 2/25 - drama vocab test - costuming - flashpot.

Costuming: The way the characters are dressed. Can be used to create mood, illusion, and set the piece in a particular time.

Plot: What happens in the story, may not be sequential. Has to hold the audience’s attention, visually interesting.

Theme: A universal truth about people – the things they do, the way they are, that can be applied to your life. Not a dippy moral.

Infer: A reasonable conclusion one can draw from facts or evidence given.

Aside: A character speaks directly to the audience. Through asides, characters in a play reveal directly to the audience their thoughts or other characters’ thoughts. Usually delivered in confidence pretending that other characters cannot hear.

Nota Bene, N.B.: Note well. Used to call attention to something important.

Flash-pot: A device that creates a burst of fire and smoke that creates a magical effect.

2/1/16

Lit 8 - Due Wednesday, 2/3 - adjective worksheet, page 11.
Lit 6 - Due Tuesday, 2/2, Antonyms worksheet, page 17. Students should use the vocabulary on pages 15 and 16 to complete the asignment.
Lit 6 - Thursday, 2/25 - nonfiction vocab test. Humorous commentary - anecdote.

Humorous commentary: Writing that contains amusing personal observations or opinions to help readers look at life a little less seriously.

Analytical essay: A short nonfiction composition that breaks down a big idea into parts. Helps the reader understand how the parts fit together and what they mean as a whole.

Tribute: A literary expression of gratitude or admiration to honor a special person. Describes a person’s traits.

Facts: Statements that can be proved true with reliable sources. Can be verified.

Opinions: Beliefs or judgments. Not subject to verification.

Character traits: The qualities that make a person, or even an animal, an individual.

Memoir: A biographical piece usually written by a relative or personal friend of the subject. Can be one person’s recollection or based on interviews and anecdotes of several people.

Anecdote: Brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event.