Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, finally the sun is shining!
We will continue with Black History Month this week and finish up next week. We got a late start due to testing. This week we finish up all projects that have been started, including sewing our quilts, writing our Middle Passage narrative and putting the finishing touches on our blues song. Be sure and ask your student what their blues name is :) Also, the Middle Passage narrative should be handed in typed, by Tuesday. Students may e-mail it to me and I'll print it out. We will continue to the Harlem Renaissance this week and explore the idea of identity. Students will also begin researching a famous time, place or person in black history.
Book Fair this week! Be sure to visit the media center. Speaking of which, all overdue books must be returned to the library ASAP. Mrs. Souter will hold report cards of students who fail to return their books. I informed students last week if they had an overdue book and the title. Please be diligent about returning materials to the library. Many students have books that belong to me checked out also, please get them returned so I can continue to lend them out to all!
Non-fiction book reports and posters are due this Wednesday, March 7. I am posting the rubric for the poster and will grade essays based on the guidelines I have posted on the blog. Please follow both!
Talent Show auditions wind up Monday. We are going to have a heck of a show! Be sure to plan on attending this extravaganza on April 20th! This will be a fun time you don't want to miss! Refreshments will be available.
I have 4 disks of pictures from the dance! Thank you Alexis Howell's family! I would like a parent volunteer to upload them to a photo-sharing site.Parents and friends may then view shots and select which ones they would like to buy! There are some terrific shots. The site we upload these shots to must be closed to the general public, as we have some students that do not have permission to publish their pictures. Please contact me if you are able to set this up for everyone!
Homework: We still have homework!!!!!Students must continue to read daily!!! This is extremely important!
Competitive Edge: students should have completed answering, highlighting, and checking answers up to page 74. This week we will continue onto the next chapter, I will not award credit from here on out, unless answers are highlighted and corrected weekly. I check books on Friday. Please have students complete, with highlighting and answers checked, pages 75-96 this week.
If your child is completing reading summaries instead of Competitive Edge, they should just continue handing them in as usual.
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