ELA & SOCIAL STUDIES- Gr. 7 & 8

Welcome Parents and Students.  Hope you had a great summer.  All summer work will be collected tomorrow, September 6th.  I also recommend that all students have at least two pencil cases for storage.  Just a reminder that all students can wear their gym uniforms on Thursday.  Please send your child with a water bottle as our room is very warm.

PLEASE REMEMBER BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

COVER ALL BOOKS!

HW FOR 11/27:  ELA QUESTIONS FOR LYDDIE FOR CHAPTERS 3 and 4:
1.  The text says: “‘It was half the Stevenses’ calf by rights,’ she said, trying to diminish for both of them the enormity of what she had done” (43).
2.  What do diminish and enormity mean?
3.  How do context clues help you figure that out?
4.  What does this sentence help us to infer about how they are feeling?
5. “She felt leaden with sadness” (43). • What does the word leaden mean?
6.  How do you know?
7. What is making her feel “leaden with sadness”?
8. Why did Lyddie give Ezekial the money?
9.  What character trait(s) does this show?

SOCIAL STUDIES:  SECTIONS WORK AND CHAPTER WORK DUE FRIDAY/ TEST ON MONDAY

HW for 12/3:  Sign and correct social studies exam.  Finish Johnny Tremain
HW for 12/7:  S.S. :  complete lessons 1 and 2 of ch.7
HW for 12/10:  S.S. Section 3 of Ch 7, poems with warrants and evidence of CHARLIE and LYDDIE.  S.S. test is Friday.

HW for 12/13:  Study for Social Studies test.  Continue reading Call of the Wild.  It is due on Tuesday.  Sign ELA test on Yuki.

HW for 12/17:  Sign and correct social studies test.  

Students need to cover all books.  

HW FOR 12/6:  Sign and Correct Social Studies test
HW for 12/8:  Read, Annotate, Gist charts for ch.3 of To Kill a Mockingbird.  S.S. sections 1 and 2 of Ch.7
HW for 12/10:  Gist page for ch.4 of To Kill a Mockingbird.  ALl Social Studies work is due on Thursday and test on Friday

HW for 12/13:  Study for Social Studies test on World War I.  All charts for To Kill a Mockingbird should be done through chapter 5.