Middle School English
8th
7th
Sixth graders are finishing Book IV and adding a bullet-point summary by Monday, 5 May. We will have a comp check during Monday's English class and begin reading and annotating Book V where we will meet Odysseus for the first time. Students will have the week to complete this chapter with a comp check to assure understanding. When reading and annotating independently, students must be sure that they can confidently summarize each stanza. Regarding vocabulary, students should define any vocabulary words that they do not know. As always, new characters must be written on top of the page with a brief description.
On Friday of next week, 8th Grade students will take a diagramming test based on sentences they have composed.
Our study of Julius Caesar will end with our watching Act IV and Act V on video during block periods as this visual performance gives valuable insights into the battling between the factions.
Vocabulary study has two more weeks of content as the year progresses to its end. Journals are due every Friday.
Extra credit opportunities for this quarter include memorizing thirty five lines of one of Julius Caesar's famous speeches and performing them before the class. The extra credit reading is due by May 12th and includes Lois Lowry's The Giver and Paulo Cohelo's Alchemist.
7th
This week, we conclude our study of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Some of our final literary foci include the literary device tone, dramatic techniques, and poetic structure including meter scansion. We are also continuing our analysis of the comedy's film adaptation by a traditional Shakespearean acting troupe from Toronto.
6th During the block period, students will perform the BENx Talks that they began creating
in the week of April 14th. Some classes will take the stage in the BPAC to present. We look forward to hearing all students' unique "ideas worth spreading."
We will also conduct a final review of grammar this week ahead of the Semester 2 grammar test next week. Completing this assessment ahead of the final exam signifies that the latter assessment will not include any sentence diagramming.
On the topic of this course's final exam, students will receive a study guide at the end of this week. That way, they can begin to prepare early for May 20th, when they will complete the assessment. As a class, we will practice the skills most essential to success on the exam.
We will also conduct a final review of grammar this week ahead of the Semester 2 grammar test next week. Completing this assessment ahead of the final exam signifies that the latter assessment will not include any sentence diagramming.
On the topic of this course's final exam, students will receive a study guide at the end of this week. That way, they can begin to prepare early for May 20th, when they will complete the assessment. As a class, we will practice the skills most essential to success on the exam.
Sixth graders are finishing Book IV and adding a bullet-point summary by Monday, 5 May. We will have a comp check during Monday's English class and begin reading and annotating Book V where we will meet Odysseus for the first time. Students will have the week to complete this chapter with a comp check to assure understanding. When reading and annotating independently, students must be sure that they can confidently summarize each stanza. Regarding vocabulary, students should define any vocabulary words that they do not know. As always, new characters must be written on top of the page with a brief description.
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