Here is the latest information from Room 8:
Subject Rundown
8th Grade Vocabulary
Unit 5 test on Wednesday, November 10. Please visit the words at http://www.vocabtest.com/vocabulary_word_test.php?grade=8&unit=5
8th Grade Literature
We will be visiting the computer lab on Monday and Tuesday of this week to give students a chance to publish their historical fiction papers. The guidelines for the assignments are as follows:
• Compare and contrast events and characters within an historical fiction book with the actual events of the time in which it took place
• Summarize the historical fiction book you read, describing its rising and falling actions, style, and the conflict within the story (explain opposing forces).
• Summarize the ACTUAL time and setting that your story took place. If your story took place around the Gettysburg during the Civil War, you would describe the battle, how many people lost their lives, a few main generals in the battle, etc.
• Turn it in by Thursday, November 11
• Complete it in more than 450 words
8th Grade Language Arts
We just began a unit on creating a simulated memoir of an historical figure. For example, what would Benjamin Franklin have written in his diary just before bed on July 3, 1776? We have read other memoir entries and have created our own simulated memoirs. We will continue to study simulated memoirs and the unit will conclude with a paper the students will write recreating an historical figure's "memoir."
8th Grade Algebra
Chapter Test over Linear Equations on Wednesday, November 10. Then we are off to studying Linear Functions!
7th Grade Literature
We just finished a unit on antagonists, protagonists, and conflict. Our quiz on this unit was on Friday, November 5.
We are now reading Thornton Wilder's award-winning play, "Our Town."
7th Grade Language Arts
We are in the middle of creating our own persuasive essays. The students have gone to the computer lab multiple times for research and publishing of their papers.
7th Grade Pre-Algebra
Chapter test on Tuesday, November 9 over Operations with Integers! Then it's off to the wacky world of Rational Numbers :)
Other Important News
8th Graders will be visiting the book fair in the library on Monday at 12:45 pm.
8th Graders were given Catholic School Open House and High School Placement test information on Thursday, November 4. Please let us know if you have any questions. Much more information will be forthcoming.
Practices for winter sports are well underway. Go Pirates Basketball and Cheerleading!!
Congratulations to Student Council Officers President Natalie Loewengruber, Vice President Griffin Burton, and 8th Grade Representative Hannah Cortese. May you guide us on the path to success and God's will.
Big Congratulations to Julia Eory, who won first prize in the class costume contest. She was a piece of candy! Ask her what kind.
Parent-Teacher conferences will take place between 1:30 and 8:30pm on Wednesday and Thursday, November 10 and 11. Hope to see you all there! Registrations is underway just outside the office.
We are creating a "Names of the Dead" book outside the office for all who have lost loved ones. Please write their name in the book just outside the school office doors and we will all pray for them.
