Monday, October 28, 2013

10/28/13 Happy Monday!

English 8:   
Students learned about and practiced writing oxymoron's within DOL/Journal.   They were given a research packet for the a WWII related research report.  Students will be learning how to avoid plagiarism by using parenthetical citations, as well as take research notes, create an outline, and create a bibliography.  Please check the packet closely for due dates. Students will be working with vocabulary list 3 (Anne Frank).  Each student was given one word (a few students had two) to look up and present to the class in the morning.  Homework:  *assigned word for review - vocabulary (all due Friday) - read AR 

Geography 7: We continued with the oil video.  Students need to finish completing their oil video sheet, as well as start working on their essay pre-write.  A 5-paragraph expository essay will be due Friday as a response to the oil video.  No current event this week.  Homework:   oil worksheet & start pre-write - read AR 


English 7:  Students were given Gathering Blue spelling list Ch.3-6.  We discussed the words and clarified meaning.  Within journals, students practiced writing with the homophones: there, their, and they're.  Homework:  spelling (all due Friday) -  read AR

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