Welcome to my classroom!
Welcome to 8th grade! I am excited for another great year. This is my 22th year here at East Prairie. I grew up in Newman and currently live in the country near Villa Grove with my husband and twins who are Seniors at Villa Grove. Dalton plays football and competes in field events in track. Madison keeps us busy with cross country, basketball, and track.
This will be a year with new adventures in reading and writing. In Literature, we start the year out with theme, characterization, and point of view with short stories and fairy tale rewrites and continue with our Murder/ Mystery Unit covering inference, foreshadowing, and mood. Our next phase will take us into Drama with the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank. This also begins our multicultural novel unit. This usually involves projects and research. As always, they are required to complete independent reading.
Composition has become more writing with common core. We will be focusing on writing components while still reviewing our grammar as well as covering several new concepts including the verbals: participles, gerunds, infinitives, and appositives. Another first will be the research paper. The students get to have a hand in choosing their topic since we will be working on them from October until the end of December. They will receive a grade in both Composition as well as History for this project. We will be writing daily. Be sure to check out the website for assignments, resources, and dates that you will need to know.
This will be a year with new adventures in reading and writing. In Literature, we start the year out with theme, characterization, and point of view with short stories and fairy tale rewrites and continue with our Murder/ Mystery Unit covering inference, foreshadowing, and mood. Our next phase will take us into Drama with the play version of The Diary of Anne Frank. This also begins our multicultural novel unit. This usually involves projects and research. As always, they are required to complete independent reading.
Composition has become more writing with common core. We will be focusing on writing components while still reviewing our grammar as well as covering several new concepts including the verbals: participles, gerunds, infinitives, and appositives. Another first will be the research paper. The students get to have a hand in choosing their topic since we will be working on them from October until the end of December. They will receive a grade in both Composition as well as History for this project. We will be writing daily. Be sure to check out the website for assignments, resources, and dates that you will need to know.