6th graders - this week in Black History

Students will be doing some self-reflection this week as we study the Harlem Renaissance. This will include reading Zora Neale Hurston and painting.

7th grade Vocabulary Words for the week of Feb. 28, 2011

sabotage
inconceivable
impertinent
unseemly
groggery
blunders
inferno
contemplated
chandler
consumed
illustrious
forage
disembarked
heralds
ample

CHAINS by Laurie Halse Anderson

We are half way through the book and it is soooooo good.  For the first time all year, students are begging me to keep reading!!!

Last week we made symbolic pictures from our favorite images in the novel.

This Friday, we will have a Vocabulary Test on the following words:
Emanations
Pestilent
Beseech
Huzzah
Intemperate
Stead
Din
Indisposed
Melancholy
Ague
Noxious
Purging
Summoning
Elixir
Replenish

February-Black History Month

I am sitting in the library right this minute.  Mrs. Souter is helping me figure out how I messed up my blog.  While I'm here, I'll update.

6th grade will begin studying Black History month on Monday.  Mrs. Berner and I will be team teaching and I really think the students will love the lessons we have planned.

7th grade has started the novel, Chains.  Vocabulary words will come from the novel.