Saturday, March 12, 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011

General Announcements:
  • If you ever notice something missing or wrong on the blog, comment to let me know about it - I don't always have the whole picture. -Grace
  • March 16 (PM only) & 17 (all day) - Spring parent/student/teacher conferences. Conference sign-ups available in the River Classroom.
  • March 16, 17 & 18 - Wed., 3/16 will be an early dismissal day (No Homework Club), and on Thurs., 3/17 and Fri., 3/18, there will be no school for students.
  • Fridays: Hip-Hop Dance - The Prisms' next PE unit will be hip-hop dance class on Friday afternoons. Students need to wear or bring comfortable clothes and shoes for class.
  • Wed., March 16 - Ukulele Club registration forms due. Download Ukulele Club documents here.
  • Fri., March 25 - First Ukulele Club Meeting
  • Eighth Grade Project resource page updated 1/24, including project deadlines through the end of February and downloadable documents. Page will be updated as I get new information.

Language Arts:
Your essay work for the weekend is broken down into three parts as follows:
  • Friday Homestudy due Saturday, March 12: Write the fourth paragraph of the essay—the third “body paragraph”. Be certain that you have developed it with significant, specific details and/or examples.
  • Saturday Homestudy due Sunday, March 13: Write the fifth paragraph of the essay—the concluding paragraph. Restate your thesis/position statement in a memorable way and show its importance to the reader—why s/he should care about the thesis/position statement. The first draft is completed here.
  • Sunday Homestudy due Monday, March 14: Revise and edit the first draft of the essay. First, reword it so it is clear and has a variety of sentence types (questions, statements) and beginnings. Edit it for spelling, word use (their/there, its/it’s)capitalization, punctuation.

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