In Language Arts…(And a History Trial!)

In language arts, we're building on our understanding of the parts of speech by moving into sentence structure. We started with subjects and predicates on Monday; understanding the parts of speech really helps with identifying the parts of a sentence. All of this builds towards improving writing by using a variety of sentence lengths and structures, a skill that requires a good understanding of basic sentence elements. We'll start with some basic notes and practice. And we'll even explore sentence structure through some sentence diagramming. So many times, it's these diagrams that make all this grammar stuff really "click."

Next week, we'll review some of the key literary terms and concepts we've studied over the past semester, and we'll have a quiz on these terms at the end of the week.

Another exciting upcoming event is the Boston Massacre Mock Trial! This week, students are diving into their roles and preparing testimony, opening statements, cross-examination, and more in anticipation of the trial next Friday afternoon. Parents are welcomed--and encouraged!--to attend the trial. It will be in the Dryden library from 12:10 to 1:55 on Friday, December 19th. Hope to see you there!