English 7 - Week of 4/11-4/15

Students will be reviewing all types of conjunctions: coordinating, correlative, conjunctive, and subordinate. There will be nightly homework and a quiz on Friday over unites 9.1-9.4.

English 6 - Week of 4/11-4/15

This is the week of prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students should memorize all the prepositions on p. 142 and be ready for a test on Friday, 4/15.

There will be nightly homework from units 6.6-6.9.

English 8 - Week of 4/11-4/15

Students have been researching careers and should have the following items completed:

Introductory Paragraph, Job application, I-search, 20 note cards.

The following items should be completed by the end of this week:

Cover letter, rough draft of paper, thank you letter, works cited page.

In addition, students should have either a job shadow, speaker, or presentation scheduled. Student presentations will be held Wednesday and Thursday 4/20 and 4/21. All job shadows and career speakers should be scheduled before April 20th. Students should see me this week about scheduling one of the three if they haven't done so yet.

The due date for the research paper and all of it's pieces has been moved to Tuesday, April 19th.

English 6 - 3/14 & 3/16

3/14 - Students will begin Chapter 6. Monday we will focus on subjects and predicates. HWp. 133 Ex. 3 - all.

3/15 - Students will review natural and inverted order. HW p. 135 Ex. 3 # 1-12.

No class on Thursday and Friday.

English 7 - Week of 3/14 - 3/17

3/14 - Noun Clauses as appositives. Finish Ben Franklin quotes used as noun clauses. HW p. 155Ex. 3

3/15 - Noun Clauses as direct objects. HW p. 157 EX 3. d. 7

3/16 - Noun Clauses as objects of prepositions. HW p. 159 Ex. 2.

English 8 - Week of 3/14 - 3/17

Students are exploring careers and vocations. Students should have selected a career to research and bring all information to class each day. Students will be taught a "notecard" method for writing a research paper.

3/15 Introductory paragraph due for Career Research Paper

3/16 - Vocab. test #3

3/17 - Read Dr. Seuss with kindergarten buddies

English 6 - Week of 2/28-3/4

Monday - Finish Limericks/Teach Parts of Speech Poems. - Memorize poems

Wednesday - First group of students to recite poems. - Teach Terse Verse

Thursday - 2nd group of students to recite poems. - Type Poem Page.

Poetry Book Due 3/10

English 7 - Week 2/28 - 3/4

Monday - Students will revise, edit and type entries for Barnes and Nobles Favorite Teacher writing contest - Due Tuesday 3/1.

Tuesday - Friday - Back to grammar, specifically adjective and adverb clauses. Look for more sentence diagramming.

English 8 - Week of 2/28 - 3/4

Poetry Anthologies are due Wednesday, 3/2

Students will write an entry for the Barnes and Nobles "Favorite Teacher" writing contest on Thursday. We will practice for First Friday Mass on Thursday.

End of Trimester this Friday 3/4.

English 7 - Week of 2/22-2/25

2/22 - Poetry Book Work Day

2/23 - Poetry Recitation

2/24 - Poetry Work Day- Class Edit

2/25 - Poetry Books Due

English 8 - Week of 2/22-2/25

2/22 - Write minimum 4 quatrain story poem. Should have rhyme and rhythm. Write Poetry Page

2/23 - Poetry Recitation in Class - Write Personification using verbs naming human actions. Write Poetry Page

2/24 - Write Free Verse - Work on Poetry Pages

2/25 - Vocabulary Test #2

2/28 - Poetry Work Day

3/1 - Poetry Work Day - Class Edit

3/2 - Poetry Books Due

English 6 - Week of 2/14 - 2/18

Students are writing original poetry and responding to poetry of other authors. Students should also select a poem to memorize. Here are some dates to keep in mind:
2/16 - Students should have completed Name Poem, 3 Haiku, and 2 Diamonte Poems.
2/17 - Students should have 2 quatrains.
2/23 - Story Poem Due
2/24 - 2 Limericks due.
3/3 - Students should recite a poem - Must be a minimum of 12 lines long and must be pre-approved by me.
Poetry book will be due March 3rd.

English 7 - Week of 2/14-2/18

Students have been writing poetry and finding poetry from other authors. Students should have finished writing all poetry up through " alliteration" and should have copied at least five poems by other authors. Students should have selected their poems for memorization (I need to approve it) and should be memorizing it.

Here are some upcoming due dates:
2/24 - Original poetry up thorugh personification should be complete.
2/23 - Poetry Recitation Date..Poems should be memorized.
2/25 - Final poetry books due...all poems written, illustrated and arranged nicely in a book.

English 8 - Week of 2/14 - 2/18

Students are writing original poetry, copying poetry from other authors, writing a brief literary analysis of each poem, and memorizing a poem to recite to class. Students should be writing approximately one poem per night and copying one or more poems from other authors each night or in class. By the end of this week, students should have written all the personification and metaphor poems and should have the sonnet completed. Here are some upcoming due dates...
2/17 - Sonnet Due
2/18 - Sentences and Definitions #2 - Due
2/23 - Poetry Recitation in Class (14 line or longer poem needs to be memorized)
2/25 - Vocabulary Test #2 (Poetry book check date)
3/2 - Final Poetry Book Due

English Week of 1/18 - 1/21/11

Back by popular demand, here is a blog about what will be happening in the various English classes this week...

English 8 - Finish study of word roots, prefixes, and suffixes. On Tuesday, students will be given class time to work on crossword puzzles with their partners. One crossword plus answer key for each group of two is due at beginning of class on Thursday, 1/20. Homework: Activity E. p. 276, and Activity H, p. 277. Due: Thursday!

Wednesday 1/19 - Students will be dying t-shirts. When shirts are complete, students may work on homework, finish crossword puzzles, and/or study for test. Be sure to memorize the roots and their meanings and be able to change words by adding suffixes.

Thursday 1/20 - Crosswords and HW Due - Test on Word Roots

English 7 - Chapter 8 - Sentences.

1/18 - HW p. 141 Ex. 2 # 1-10

1/19 - HW p. 143 Ex. 3 # 1-16

1/20 - CW/HW - p. 144 - Chart for Ex. #1

English 6 - Finish Unit on Word Roots

1/19 - Study for Roots Quiz. Be sure to memorize the roots and their meanings. Be sure to know the definitions for all the words on pg. 491 - 493.

1/20 - Roots quiz. Then begin writing assignment for Barnes and Nobles Contest.

Nov. 15 - Nov. 24

7th Grade English

11/15 – Adverbial Nouns and Interrogative Adverbs p. 113 Ex. 3 # 1-7 & Ex 4 # 1-7

11/16 – Comparative and Superlative Adverbs p. 115 Ex. 1 – complete chart. Ex. 2 # 1-10

11/17 – use “good, well, farther, further, there, their, they’re bad, badly” in your journal.Read p. 116. Complete p. 117 Ex. 1 # 1-15

11/18 – Identify and use Adverb clauses and phrases. Read p. 118, Ex. 3 p. 119 # 1-5

11/19 – Diagramming Adverb clauses and phrases. P. 213 Diagram # 1,2,3.

11/22 – more diagramming and review for Chapter 6 test.

11/23 – review for test

11/24 – chapter 6 test.

Week of Nov. 8-12

English 8 - We are continuing the study of infinitives as adverb and hidden/split infinitives

No class Monday - Asante Children's Choir

Tues. p. 103 EX 3 # 1-10

Wed. p. 105 Ex 2 # 5-10

We will have a Chapter test on Verbals on Wednesday, Nov. 17th.

English 7 - We are finishing Chapter 4 - Verbs

Monday - Finish class presentations. HW pgs. 80-81 # 25-53

Tuesday - Study for test...www.voyagesinenglish.com

Wednesday - Chapter 4 test.

Friday - Being Adverbs p. 109 EX 3 # 1-4

English 6 - We are finishing the noun unit.

Monday. p. 23 Ex 3 - Chose any 5 words and use each as both a noun and an adjective. (you will have ten sentences when you are finished) Study for Chapter 1 - Test

Wednesday - Test

Week of Nov. 1 - 5

English 8 - We will continue our study of verbals by introducing infinitives. HW is as follows:

Mon.p. 95 - Apply it Now

Tues. p. 97 - Ex. 2 # 1-17

Wed. p. 99 - Ex. 2 # 1-10

Thurs.p. 101 - ex. 2 #8-17

English 7 - We will continue with our study of verbs: phrases, tenses, and agreement.

Mon. p. 73 - Ex. 3 #1-11

Tues. p. 77 Ex. 3 #1-7 d. 7

Wed. Begin class project to teach subject/verb agreement (poster and Power Point) Due Friday.

English 6 - I will introduce appositives and review words used as nouns and verbs.

Mon. p. 19 Ex. 2 #1-6

Wed.. p. 19 Ex. 3 and p. 190 d. 1&4

Thurs. p. 21 "Apply it Now"

Week of October 25 - 29

All English Classes are working on VFW Essays. Students should bring all pre-writing, drafts, and jump drive to class. Typed rough drafts should be five paragraphs, 300-400 words, double spaced, size 12 font. Rough drafts are due as follows:

English 8 - Thursday 10/28

English 7-1 Tuesday 10/26

English 7-2 Wednesday 10/27

English 6 -Wednesday 10/28.

Final Essays should have completed VFW essay entry form stapled to the front of the essay. The student's name should not appear on the essay. Final essays are due as follows:

English 8 - Friday

English 7-1 Wednesday

English 7-2 Thursday

English 6 - Friday

Remember, conferences are this week so we have noon dismissals each day. Students have different schedule each day.

Also, it's Pink Week.:

Monday - Pink Shirt

Tuesday - Pink accessories

Wednesday - Pink hat or hair

Thursday - Pink everything

Friday - Halloween colors.

Week of October 11-15

English 8 - Students will learn to use and diagram gerunds..the second verbal in our series.

English 7 - Students will edit their "How-to" articles. Final drafts due on Tuesday. They will review simple, perfect, and progressive verb tenses.

English 6 - Students will review nouns on Monday and take a test on Wednesday. They will move into possessive nouns later this week.

Guitar - practice notes on E and B strings through pg. 31. Practice EZ G, G7, C, and Em chords.

Advanced Band - Concert Eflat scale, Duets in Book 1 and through page 3 in Book 2.

Beginning Band - Practice through pg. 6