Middle School English
8th
7th
6th
Sixth graders are reading and annotating Book IV to line 410 of Homer's epic The Odyssey by Monday, 28 April. We will have a comp check during Monday's English class and continue reading and annotating this long chapter throughout the week. 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.
Vocabulary #4 is due on Tuesday, 29 or Wednesday, 30 April. Sentences must be complex and have at least one prepositional phrase.
Having completed a preposition memorization quiz, students will now begin identifying how prepositional phrases function in a sentence.
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
We are continuing through A Midsummer Night's Dream this week, and we will begin screening a film adaptation of the comedy together. Screening this version will allow us to practice some rudimentary film critique and analysis too, which will build students' understanding of the written text. We will continue to read and annotate the comedy in and outside of class too.
To celebrate the end of National Poetry Month, we will begin the last poetry journal in the course on Robert W. Service's narrative poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.
To celebrate the end of National Poetry Month, we will begin the last poetry journal in the course on Robert W. Service's narrative poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.
Finally, in this penultimate week of the BENx Talks process, students will be drafting, editing, and revising their persuasive speeches. They will perform their writing for their classmates in the week following this one.
Sixth graders are reading and annotating Book IV to line 410 of Homer's epic The Odyssey by Monday, 28 April. We will have a comp check during Monday's English class and continue reading and annotating this long chapter throughout the week. 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.
Vocabulary #4 is due on Tuesday, 29 or Wednesday, 30 April. Sentences must be complex and have at least one prepositional phrase.
Having completed a preposition memorization quiz, students will now begin identifying how prepositional phrases function in a sentence.
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