So here we are at the dawn of a new unit of study – POETRY!!! Love it, love it, love it!
I do have another survey for you….I’ve been keeping this nifty little tech-ish tool in my pocket for awhile now…it’s called YackPack and I think we could really make it work for us, particularly in [...]
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(sigh)…I hope that you all had an amazing, restful week with your families. I know that the next several weeks are going to FLY by!
Pre-APeeps:
I am so excited to be reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit! Most of what we will be doing with this novel will be completed independently – I hope that you guys [...]
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…how many of you are going to be able to bring your OWN PERSONAL copy of “The Hobbit” to class? We’ll begin reading soon!!!
Please let me know ASAP…
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Ok so I didn’t actually GET a three-day weekend…I spent Monday in a Pre-AP training in which I devised fantastic literary torture for ALL of you (not just my Pre-APeeps)! However, I hope that you all got some well-deserved rest!
We start a brand-new six weeks on Tuesday, and with that comes a brand new vocabulary list! Woo [...]
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I hope that you all enjoyed reading and annotating “The Moustache”! I stumbled across that story while at a Pre-AP Conference at TCU and absolutely loved it. If you didn’t happen to finish reading & annotating the story in class Friday, don’t worry – you’ll have some time to finish up on Monday.
I bet you’re [...]
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Hello Pre-AP! I hope that you guys digested the excerpt from “Great Expectations” that I handed out on Friday, and I can’t wait to see how you’ve totally written all over it! So what do you all think about that Miss Havisham? Told ya she was an interesting character!
After a little more annotation practice – [...]
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Ah….don’t you love the smell of literature in the morning?
I am excited about this week because I get to expose you guys to a *wee* bit from two of my favorite books, Great Expectations and To Kill a Mockingbird. We’ll be brushing up on our annotation skills this week, which I expect to see you [...]
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I am thrilled to be starting a new year with my Pre-AP-ers! I have a rigorous year planned for us! This week most of what we’ll do with coincide with what my regular classes do, so it would behoove you to read their entries as well as ours, but next week we embark on an [...]
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Howdy Lions! Welcome to my 8th Grade Language Arts and welcome to my webpage! If you are in my Pre-AP Language Arts class, please click the category “Pre-AP Language Arts” link in the sidebar of my webpage for any information that is specific to your class.
I always feel a delirious combination of exhilaration and exhaustion at the beginning [...]
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