TGIF!!!

Ok, I'm not complaining about the long week because I've only been here 2 days of it!  But I am thankful for Friday because I love the weekends!!  Even though both our highschool boys and girls basketball teams got beat out, there are still games being played at Woodward for all the other teams still alive in our Area I.  Things still seem really busy too as we are fast approaching test dates.  We've all gotta stay focused and keep our hard hats on--keep plugging away and working!!  Hope everyone has a fun and restful weekend!!

7th English
*Since many students refused to be quiet while the "Word on the Street" was being announced, the entire class got to write the word, "dismal," along with it's: part of speech; definition; example used in a sentence; and word origin 10 times.  Then we took a pop quiz over the word and took grades on this quiz.  Most students were only able to write all of that information down about 7 or 8 times.  Hopefully, I got the class' attention. Maybe next Monday, they will be quiet and take notes when the "Word on the Street" is announced. 
*Spelling Test #23; Spelling Wb #23; and Vocab Wb #23 is all due on Monday.
*We will grade all of Break Away assignments from when I was gone on Monday as well.
*Book Reports are due Tues.

8th Lang. Arts
*Conservation Essays for the contest are due Monday.
*They handed in both sets of worksheets from when I was gone.  We will grade these after the Writing Test.  But we will discuss next week on how to incorporate some of those concepts from the worksheets into the students' writing. 
*On Monday we will start writing againg using various prompts and following all 4 steps of the Writing Process.
*Book Reports due Tuesday.
*Writing Test March 9-10.