8th Grade Vocabulary Update

Unless your name is Rahi or Chris, you should prepare for tomorrow's review quiz. The following might be covered: ape,dun, fop, gad, hex, ken, pox, sow, vex, vie, amalgamation, admixture, eclectic, catholic, motley, corroborate, assunder, diaspora, cleave, disseminate, aphrodisiac, chthonic, hector, hermetic, junoesque, mercurial, mnemonic, muse, odyssey,                            saturnine--plus the 10 words for this week. 

Those of you who have to take the full quiz also owe me 20 sentences(2 per word) for this week's vocabulary list. These sentences are due on Friday.

Everyone has to take the 10 question quiz on Wednesday.

23 February

7th Grade:  Section two of the citizenship handbook is due tomorrow and section three is due Thursday. Be sure to complete the story "Some Opposites of Good" for Wednesday.

6th Grade: We will complete The Jumping Frog story in class on Wednesday. Be sure to look at Howthingswork to prepare your oral presentation.

12 February

6th Grade-- Please be sure to read the story that I gave you on Wednesday, "Sucker." It is due tomorrow.

8th grade--prepare your lessons if you have not done so, and glance over chapter 19. You might need that information. 

Thursday, 12 February

All:  The independent reading blog counts as eight literature grades. At the end of the trimester, I  calculate your grade by adding the number of posts you have made, adjusting for length and originality, and comparing the total to an acceptable average number of posts.  Last trimester, that  average was eight. If you had eight posts, your grade was an 85. Fewer posts yielded lower grades, and more posts yielded higher grades. 

Last week I warned each class that some students were not blogging enough, or, more to the point, at all.  Several of you did not take my warning on blogging seriously. Instead of trying frantically to make up for a trimester squandered and posting immediately, some students did nothing.  Clearly, procrastination is deeply seated in those few students, and I would like to help. To that end,  if you have not made substantial contributions to your class's blog by Tuesday, 17 Feb, I will record five of the eight zeros that you have earned so far in my grade book. No amount of last second blogging will save you from those five zeros, though posts made after the 17th will help on the final three grades.

Hope this helps!

7th Grade--Review the information about the Articles of Confederation and review your agendas for the Constitution game.

Week of 9-13 February

Just a reminder to all students--write your blogs. If you have failed to write any blogs this trimester, you are looking at eight zeros in literature. You have about four weeks left to make up for your lack of effort so far.

7th and 8th Grade, nice work on your debates. I'll send grades home next week, but many of you have improved dramatically. Those who made mistakes, please learn from them. We start the final debate in two weeks.

8th grade--Chapter 19:3 and 19:4 Due next week.

7th Grade--No history sections due, yet again. We'll be making our Constitution next week. Kindly remember to finish The Chocolate War.

6th Grade-- Remember todays class discussion and think about what limits you place on yourself when you fight with siblings. Ask yourself if there is anything you could do or say that would be unforgivable.