Happy September to you all! I have had some tech. difficulty with Skyward - hence the delay with grades being posted in a timely fashion - I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused! I'm hoping to get the glitches resolved within the week. (FYI - they are issues I am not "authorized" to resolve on my own)
In the meantime - In English we have Choice books with dialectical journals well underway --- these are due the week prior to the end of the semester on 10/18. Ask to see your student's sheet regarding this assignment.
We also are reviewing some basic concepts for English via short stories in our literature book - inference and theme are the concepts for the this week. Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, MLK Jr, and Colin Powel have provided our essays thus far. This week - we are delving into forms of government. Your student should have their Civics book at home and be able to share with you the ideas we are discussing in class (such as Syria). We are also spending time with current events via the Spokesman Review.
We had a short quiz on Ch. 1 sec 2 last week --- nearly all students did quite well! We have another quiz scheduled for Monday 9/16 --- this will cover the questions and terms they have completed for Chapter 2.
Next week, we will start our first novel, Animal Farm, and will focus on "The Cycle of Power" --- this should be very high interest for many of the students and provide a good tool for evaluating other countries and their governments.
Please contact me if you have any questions --- and FYI - if your student is absent, I would love for them to touch base via email so they can stay in the loop in regards to class.
Thanks for sharing great kids with me each and every day! I'm looking forward to meeting so many of you at Open House on Thursday evening :)
