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Howdy Lions! Welcome to 8th Grade Language Arts and welcome to my website!
I always feel a delirious combination of exhilaration and exhaustion at the beginning of a school year. I have been working hard to get things ready for you all, and yet it’s only just the beginning! So many possibilities!!
I hope you will take advantage [...]
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Before we know it, we’ll be taking semester exams!
We have an exciting week this week, as we’ll be taking our big Poe test and working on our first multimedia project – a tribute to Poe. I celebration of Poe’s 200th birthday, Weekly Reader Magazine is sponsoring a Poe Video Contest. I’m looking forward to seeing [...]
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Soon, you will all be completing assignments through a discussion forum. Click the link below to go to the new forum & sign up. Please read the directions carefully.
Koolteechakids Discussion Forum
When you click on the link above, you’ll see a message saying that you “don’t have permission to view the content in this forum.” [...]
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Another vocabulary quiz is upon us, and since the Ning’s off limits for the time being, here’s the link to the vocabulary review game you can play online:
QUIZLET VOCABULARY REVIEW – CLICK HERE!!!
Have fun!!
Mrs. S
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These couple of weeks around All Hallow’s Eve are some of my favorites of the year! POE IS MY HOMEBOY!
I hope that yesterday gave you a BRIEF insight to the GENIUS that is Edgar Allan Poe. He was a brilliant, tortured writer who wrote about the miseries and horror that he lived.
Today we’ll explore his [...]
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Today we’re meeting in the computer lab to complete three separate tasks:
1. Word Maps – 20 minutes, as usual! By the way, if you ever need a copy of our essential Word Map, please click the link on the right side bar for my “Virtual File Cabinet”.
2. Daily Grammar – QUIZ!! Go to Classmarker.com and take [...]
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…and that’s just what’s on the schedule for MONDAY, believe it or not. This week we’re hitting technology HARD, starting with receiving a Gaggle email address. Some of you may have some experience with Gaggle already, which is awesome! In short, Gaggle is safe email for students. I will use your Gaggle email to send [...]
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Ah, so while I can’t teach Great Expectations, I hope you enjoyed getting to cut your teeth on it just a little. It’s a WONDERFUL story! Please try to get into the habit of annotating each story that crosses your desk. It’s a useful tool that will help you have a conversation with your text [...]
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Welcome back, darling scholars! I hope that you all enjoyed a long, restful weekend!
This week we’ll be digging deeper into “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. I love this story because it’s chock full of lots of literary goodness. Really – all the best figurative devices, recognizable conflict & resolution, a universal truth (that’s [...]
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