Language Arts Week of 5/20/13

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Last week for missing work or retakes.

Afterschool Class this week on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Parallel Journeys:
   We are reading two chapters per night and completing story boxes.
   Test on 9-17 on Wednesday 5/22/13

Simple Solutions
#61, 62, 63



8th Grade News:

May 24th  Minute to Win It Assembly -- admission -- attendance

June 6th Luncheon permission slips were handed out.  They are due back on Friday, May 24th.
Luncheon is "Dress Up."  No jeans no gym shoes.  Boys:  shirt & tie, suit coat optional.
                                                                                  Girls: appropriate clothing as discussed

Language Arts Week of 5/13/13

Common Core Unit on Power, responsibility, choices.

Focus on The Holocaust.

This week we're reading Parallel Journeys, two chapters per evening and completing a story box for each.  The story box should list the title given to the chapter by the author,  a subtitle that you created, a 3 to 6 sentence summary of the chapter & a picture to remind you of a major event that occurred in this chapter.

Simple Solutions:
Test on Tuesday 5/14/13; packet on 57 to 60 collected.

Complete Lesson 61.


EXPLORE TESTING on Thursday, May 16th
Get a good night's sleep and eat breakfast!
Last lunch this day (12:30)

Friday
Revised schedule to accommodate Fun Fair!

T-shirts are in -- have all your fees and forms in to get yours.

Language Arts 5/6 to 5/10 & 8th Grade News

things due:
Kennedy High School visitation day  May 29th - permission slip and $4.00
Springfield final payment
Diploma name sheet
Graduation fee $65.00
School fee 30.00

TESTING schedule:
   Tuesday 5/7/2013  Room 201/204  MAP TEST READING
   Thursday 5/9/2013 Room 203 MAP TEST READING
   Wednesday 5/15/2013 All 8th graders -- Day One Explore Testing - Inventory
   Thursday 5/16/2013  All 8th graders -- Explore testing (Reading, Math, English, Science)
       (special incentive for attendance on 5/15 & 5/16 -- dress down on 5/17)
    Week of 5/20 --  Map testing MATH


Progress reports go home on 5/16/2013



1. Romeo & Juliet -- Letter to the Prince of Verona about guilt must be written in school.  If you did not finish you can come Thursday am, Friday am., Thursday pm or Friday pm.  Due by 4:00 p.m on Friday.

2.  Work on Simple Solutions 57, 58, 59, 60
(we're two days behind correcting;  test will be next week)

3.  Journals will be collected either Thursday 5/9 (Yale & Princeton)  Friday 5/10 (Harvard).


READING:
Parallel Journeys -- new non-fiction text we will be reading;  stay up with vocabulary, discussion questions & reading each evening.






 

Romeo and Juliet -- Vocabulary Act IV and Act V

Romeo & Juliet - vocabulary

Act IV•Deny, desperate, lamentable, miserable, pitiful, remedy, prosperous

Act V•Contagion, dispose, famine, infectious, loathsome, pestilence, vengeance, banished, fury, unaccustomed, unsavory