Hello Team 7-2 Language Arts Students and Parents!!!

This is going to be a great year at Richards Middle School.  To make this year more productive, please utilize this page when necessary to keep up with students' homework, classwork, projects, and other classroom objectives.

Monday, March 19th will be the last reading log check for the year! Reading logs will not be checked 4th nine weeks; however, students are still required to take/pass 4 AR Tests!

Literature Books will be taken up in Language Arts class Thursday, May 3rd!

Vocabulary Quiz - Friday, May 18th!

Current Unit

~ Holocaust Unit: Students will read, analyze, and discuss The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

***Every student should be reading and AR book for at least 30 minutes every evening.

Monday, May 7th: Define Vocabulary Words

Tuesday, May 8th: BSP Critical Thinking Questions

Wednesday, May 9th: Review Vocabulary Words

Thursday, May 10th: Review Vocabulary Words

Friday, May 11th: None

Vocabulary Words

1. valor
2. lax
3. capitulate
4. socialize
5. microbe
6. desolate
7. irate
8. treadmill
9. negligent
10. detriment

3rd Period (IB)

1. Complacent
2. Consensus
3. Dynamic
4. Execute
5. Flagrant
6. Ineffectual
7. Injurious
8. Portfolio
9. Regenerate
10. Tribulation
11. Preconceived
12. Restive
13. Surveillance
14. Dire
15. Doctrine

Language Arts Notebook

Every student is required to have a Language Arts Notebook.  The notebook should be a three-ring binder, divided into the following five sections:

• Section One: DGP
• Section Two: Assignment Log & Numbered Assignments
• Section Three: Vocabulary
• Section Four: Essays/Writings
• Section Five: Handouts/Other

Numbered Assignments (These assignments should be in Section Two of the Student's Notebook until they are taken up and graded.)

1. Figurative Language Packet 3/14
2. COACH - p. 46-65 3/15
3. COACH - p. 66-84 3/20
4. Holt - Exercise 1, p. 226 & Review A, p. 227-228 3/21
5. COACH - p. 87-103 3/22
6. COACH - p. 104-119 3/26
7. COACH - p. 124-143 3/27
8. COACH - P. 166-202 3/29
9. BSP questions Chapters 1-5 4/19
10. BSP questions Chapter 6-10 4/24