Language6

No, I wasn’t captured by aliens. 
Each student has a Reading Response Journal that they are to write on nightly for the remainder of the week.  Their historical fiction AR book is due on Wednesday, November 1. 
Fourth and fifth are reading Letters from Rifka. The other classes are reading Journey to America and Memory Coat.  This [...]

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We are starting our study of historical fiction.  All classes will read a historical fiction novel that should be finished Wednesday, November 1.  I want each student to read a minimum of 10 pages a day in the book.  Historical fiction can be more difficult to read than realisitc fiction, so if they need to [...]

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Seventh period needs to finish their acrostic on one of the characters from Belle Prater’s Boy and the back of a worksheet on characterization.
Fifth period has ex. 1 and 2 for the lesson 2 spelling/vocabulary words.
Students in fourth and fifth period were introduced to the author Edgar Allan Poe today. 

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I apologize for not writing frequently last week. If you have a child at Austin, you know it was homecoming week. My son, Kirk, is the junior class president. We had a float to build. That was not the problem. The problem was that he was diagnosed with mono on [...]

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All classes will have a major test on Friday.  It will cover the four kinds of sentences, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, compound sentences, complete subjects, complete predicates, capitalization and punctuation of sentences, and context clues.
Fourth and fifth period classes will also have a spelling/vocabulary test this week.  Fourth periods test is Tuesday.  Fifth period will have [...]

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Each class has assigned pages to read tonite.  We will focus on setting, character, plot, theme and point of view with this book.  Fourth period had sentences to write with the words from lesson one.

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Each student has identified in their composition book the items they can study for the assessment tomorrow.  Please be sure they look over these tonite at home.  There will be no reading homework until Monday.

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On Friday, all students will take the Decatur City Schools pacing assessment.  The skills assessed will be conflict in literature and personification.  We have been working on these skills for several weeks.  Each student has a homework assignment to write 10 sentences that contain personification.

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All classes will go to the computer lab to take an AR test tomorrow.  Some students have already finished their book and taken their test.
We have been working on conflict in literature and personification.  On Friday, students will take an assessment from the Central Office to determine if they have mastered these concepts.  Each student [...]

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All classes have an AR book due on Tuesday, September 19.  We worked on personification today.  Fourth and Fifth period  floated on rafts in the commons while doing their work.  Be sure to ask your child about life on a raft.

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