Moving Forward

Hello Students and Parents,

Here is what to expect for the next two weeks:

7th: We just finished our poetry unit and turned in our final manuscripts. If you have not turned yours in yet, be aware that you will lose 5 points per day it is late. (7C, your packets are due Friday, 1-21-11, so don't worry yet...) We will now begin our Buckle Down review for the upcoming AIMS test and continue working in our workbooks and discussing them as a class for the next two weeks. We must begin preparing early so that we all know what to expect and can do well on the test. We will have three review sessions like this, of two weeks each, to review any unfamiliar concepts that might appear on the test.

8th: We are wrapping up our poetry unit with free verse narrative and lyric poetry. Great job on your sestinas everyone! I know they were difficult. Next week we will be editing and typing the poetry we have written and by Friday, your final typed packet of poems will be due. Next we will begin our nonfiction unit. We will read samples of literary and historical nonfiction from our Literature and Language textbooks and work out of the companion workbooks. Then we will begin discussing functional and informational text. We will begin a research project that puts our new skills to work after we complete our second section of Buckle Down AIMS review.

Keep working hard!

Mrs. Rubasch