Welcome Hale Eighth Graders and Parents!

Please visit our blog to find out about what we covered in class, homework assignments and our curriculum goals for Language Arts -- Reading and Writing.

Reminders for the Class of 2015 will also be posted.


Saturday, May 9, 2015

Friday May 8, 2015

Journal entry:
    Nuremburg Laws --  We read the laws passed in Nazi Germany in 1935;  Which one was the most surprising and why?  What arguments would you use to fight against these laws?

Journal entry:
    Cinquain and Haiku (we took notes on how to write them) -- drafts due Monday

Journal entry:
    Chart -- three columns  (name of poem,  name of poet, short of summary of what the poem was about) -- this a continuing entry as we present poems in our groups


We took notes on the element of SPEAKER/VOICE,  TYPES of POETRY (ballad, epic, cinquain, haiku, free verse)

Corrected Simple Solutions #75

HOMEWORK:
SS #76
Write your cinquain (on a food item with two syllables, i.e. "french fries")
Write your haiku

Complete an online review exercise each day for READING MAP testing (use prepdog, sosa site or compass learning -- record on your chart)


Any late  assignments on your section's novel and on Parallel Journeys due by Monday.
A 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. session was held after school on Friday.

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