We have some exciting events coming up in eighth grade. The whole eighth grade will be going to see William Shakespeare's Othello at Perseverance Theatre, with half of the students attending the show on September 17th and the other half on September 24th. Folks from the the theater are also coming to language arts classes to prepare students for the play. A big thanks to everyone at Perseverance Theatre for making this happen!
In addition to getting ready for Othello, we're continuing to study the parts of speech over the next couple of weeks in language arts. The following are links to some of the assignments:
Prepositions: Notes and Practice
Prepositions Writing Prompts
Conjunctions and Interjections: Notes and Practice
Sentence Diagrams: Adjectives and Adverbs
In history, we'll begin reading a chapter from Adventure Tales of America about exploration. Here's a link to the assignment. We'll move into some work in the textbook about the 13 original colonies, and students will work to create "Colonial Brochures" for a "Tour of the 13 Colonies" activity.
A few more upcoming dates:
Students will be MAP testing on September 18, 21, and 22.
Mid-Quarter is on Friday, September 18th. Students should be about 50% of the way to their reading point goals by this point, and they should have read at least one non-fiction book.
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