Life is Fast and Furious for 8th Grade

Wow--time certainly flies by when you are busy and hard at learning!!  We are quickly approaching the end of the first 9 weeks of school.  The 8th graders are continuing to work hard in class, but still tend to do a little too much "daydreaming" when I'm lecturing!!!  Grrrr!!  Guess that's just part of being 13 years old.  lol  :)

Assignments for this week:

Spelling Wb Less. #6=Review  due Friday and test over first 20 of the 50 review words.

Vocab Wb. Less. #6=Due Thurs.

Consumer Report Informational Text article=Write a good 5 sentence summary paragraph over an article of students' choice.  Then write down 2 things that were strange/unique/odd/interesting from article and 1 thing that the student didn't understand.  Will hand in on Wednesday and then give an oral report that day as well.

Skills Workbook p.80-86=Sentence Fragment Review=Due Friday

Students need to remember that their one oral Book Report for my class is due on Oct. 8th.  That is only 3 weeks away.  Oct. 8th is the LAST  day to give the oral report.  I do not recommend waiting until the last day to give it. 

Journals are also due Oct. 8th.  I will give the journal grade scale some time in the next two weeks.