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MRS. BETSY FINNEY 8TH GRADE ELA TEACHER "SURVIVOR" TEAM WELCOME TO MY PAGE! My AIG (first block) class continues to use the William & Mary curriculum which focuses on the concept of utopia. Students are participating in a variety of activities and reading various types of literature. This class just finished reading Lord of the Flies. I was SO proud of the projects they created from the Tic-Tac-Toe assignment! Amazing work!! We will continue learning about utopia through reading short stories and poetry. In the near future, students will complete a research paper about Utopian concepts. They are also working on presentations of literary terms. For this assignment, each student will actually teach the class about two literary terms/types that the class did not know. Terms include paradox, situational irony, farce, epithet, archetype, epic, allegory, etc. All other classes recently completed their research papers. Students learned to research, take notes, create outlines and thesis statements and cite sources. We have moved on to studying nonfiction. After learning about various nonfiction types and nonfiction elements, students have begun reading different examples of nonfiction such as a biography about Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King's famous speech, I Have a Dream. We will continue studying nonfiction by reading essays, articles, autobiographies, letters, and memoirs. We are also practicing and preparing for EOGs, which are coming soon! Please encourage your child to study their EOG vocabulary words. We continue to work with Word Skills every day. Students are steadily completing activities and learning new words! We are almost finished with the Words Skills book but we will continue to use the words and prefixes for the rest of the year! Hard work is paying off and it shows in quiz and test grades! Keep it up everyone! In addition to novels and other material we read in class, students are required to have a book from the media center at all times and should read independently as much as possible. ***Students will begin READING LOGS using Gaggle in March!*** Classes will learn how to reflect/respond about their readings on line! Reading logs will be due once a week. More information will be given to students before this begins. We will also have class in the media center twice a month. STUDENTS: Please remember to ask for make up work if you are absent from school! It is YOUR responsibility to complete all missed work!! STUDENTS & PARENTS: **Late work turn-in policy: I will accept late work (for late credit) up to 2 days after the due date. If work is not received by that time, the grade will be a zero.**
**I offer 20 points of extra credit each quarter. Students may read short comprehension passages (located in the classroom and always accessible) and answer a few questions about them. There are 10 sheets, and each one is worth 2 points!! Extra credit points will be added to low test/quiz grades at the end of each quarter. Please take the time to do this extra credit!! It can only help you!! UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER: Thursday & Friday, March 4th & 5th - Eighth Grade Mountain Trip Wednesday, March 17th - Early Release Day Monday, March 29th - End of 3rd Quarter Thursday, April 1st - Early Release Day Monday, April 5th through Wednesday, April 2nd - Spring Break **Students can not be checked out from school after 3pm! Please don't hesitate to call or email me if you have any concerns or questions: 704-857-7038 Disclaimer: http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/Disclaim.html Discrimination policy: http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/Discrimination.html
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