WEEK 4 AGENDA

Announcements:

*MAP Testing begins this week. 8th Graders will be taking the reading test in history class, the math test in math class, and the language usage test in English class. Testing will take place 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th periods on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

*Student grades can be checked online using Power School. Each student needs an id and password (from the Student Center) for this purpose.

*Emergency forms need to be turned into the office, whether there are information changes or not.

*Each day, 8th Graders have a 30-minute enrichment period after lunch. The focus for enrichment is reading. Students are reading The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller during 1st quarter.

*Students are expected to stay up to date with their Writer's Notebook Entries. All entry prompts can be found on the top left of this blog page under "Writer's Notebook Entries." When a set of entries are due, students will receive one week's notice in order to make sure all entries are revised and completed before the due date.

*Students are required to read two books per quarter outside of school, and post comments for SSR credit on Ms. Swiggum's library blog at http://www.kswiggum.edublogs.org/ (hyperlink on left of page).

AGENDA September 21-26:

This week, students will begin reading a series of fictional narratives, most of which they will select from a menu of choices. The first selection will be read as a class -- "What's the Worst that Can Happen?" by Bruce Coville. Students are also studying narrative structure, literary terminology, and thesis statements this week. We will be reviewing active verbs and figurative language as well.

WEEKLY HOMEWORK: Due Friday

1) Grammar Worksheet

2) Put 2-3 artifacts of your own, with explanations/captions in your WNB

MONDAY:

1) Blog Agenda and weekly homework

2) Ms. Swiggum's library blog -- post two comments per quarter

3) Language Arts binder organization

*Bell Work
*Assignments
*Grammar
*Writing
*Graded Work
*Vocabulary

3) What is a narrative?

4) WNB 'Catch up time'

TUESDAY:

MAP TESTING - LANGUAGE USAGE

WEDNESDAY:

1) www.freerice.com - 10 minutes of English Grammar

2) Literary Terms handout

3) Begin "What's the Worst that Can Happen?" and label figurative language

THURSDAY:

1) Brain Pop! Action Verbs video review and quiz (action verbs, direct objects, indirect objects)

2) Finish "What's the Worst that Can Happen?" and label figurative language.

FRIDAY:

*Weekly Homework due!!!*

1) Review and grade grammar homework

2) Mini-lesson and workshop: thesis statements

HOME BASE:

*Emergency Forms due this week

*One fact on oil drilling due on Monday

*SSR on Tuesday and Thursday