Monday, October 27, 2014

October 27 - 31, 2014

THIS WEEK IS HOMECOMING.  DON'T FORGET THE PARADE AND BONFIRE ON THURSDAY NIGHT.  STUDENTS WILL NEED TO MEET AT THEIR FLOAT BEHIND THE HOSPITAL AT 5:45

THERE WILL BE NO WORDLY WISE THIS WEEK.

English 7 - We will carry on with our study of verb tenses.  There will be a quiz on the verb tense chart on Tuesday.  This must be memorized!  There will also be a quiz on irregular verbs on Thursday.

English 8 - We will finish our study of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" this week.  There will be a test on this on Tuesday.  Students will review on Monday.  We will then begin our study of Edgar Allen Poe.

English 9 - Students will read through chapter 3 of Animal Farm.  We will also evaluate historical point of view as well as researching dictators and tyrants.  There will be a test on chpts. 1-3 on Thursday.

Monday, October 20, 2014

October 20, 2014

ALL CLASSES WILL HAVE WORDLY WISE THIS WEEK.  QUIZ ON LESSON 6 IS ON THURSDAY.

English 7 - We will finish writing our poems this week.  Wednesday we will have a test on "The Witch" and elements of poetry.  Thursday we will return to our unit on verb tenses.

English 8 - We will be studying Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".  There will be a test on this on Friday.  Absolute Phrase poems are due this Monday.

English 9 - We will be studying chapters 2 and 3 of Animal Farm.  We will also begin to learn about propaganda techniques.  There will be a project on this assigned on Friday.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

October 16, 2014

WE WILL HAVE WORDLY WISE NEXT WEEK - All classes are on lesson 6.

English 7 - We will continue our analysis of "The Witch".  We will be writing our own poems.

English 8 - We will be writing poems with absolute poems.

English 9 - Students will be working on AP style essays in conjunction with Animal Farm.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

October 7, 2014

NO WORDLY WISE THIS WEEK

Nine weeks exams are this week.  These will all be units tests that count once for me.  Please check your exam schedule for days and times.

English 7 - We will begin working on poetry and literary elements this week.

English 8 - We will learn absolute phrases and write poetry using different types of phrases

English 9 - We begin reading Animal Farm this week!