Last Words

This is it! The Final 2 weeks of school!

7th Grade:

We will be wrapping up this year with a unit on Folklore and Mythology.

8th Grade:

We will finish reading To Kill a Mockingbird and take a final exam on the novel.

Reminders:

*The 8th grade trip will be from May 15th-17th.

*Field Day will be on May 21st.

*Graduation is May 22nd.

*The last day of school is May 23rd.

Have a great summer!

Mrs. Rubasch

Home stretch...

Hello Students and Parents! We have exactly one month left of school and time is going to fly. Keep your eyes open for any information coming home regarding graduation, field day, and the 8th grade trip.

7th Grade: Next week we will finish reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. For the rest of the school year we will be studying mythology and folklore.

8th Grade: We will be reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the next few weeks. We will finish out the year with a unit on Greek mythology.

Good job on the AIMS test everyone!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Rubasch

4th Quarter

Dear Students and Parents,

Here is what to expect this quarter:

7th: We will be finishing The Diary of Anne Frank and each week we will work on new vocabulary, take a quiz, write a journal entry that causes us to reflect on our own lives, and do a creative project surrounding the theme of identity. Great job on your "Me Bags!" After we finish this novel, it will be time to take the AIMS test. For the rest of the year, we will work on a folklore unit.

8th: We are now reading Animal Farm and should finish this short novel in the next two weeks. We will have a vocabulary quiz each week, learn new literary terms, take daily comprehension quizzes, participate in class discussions, and discover the political situation that Orwell's famous fable exposes. We will take a final written exam and watch the film version of the story the week before the AIMS test. After AIMS we will read To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. We will conclude the year with a unit on Greek mythology.

Have a great quarter!

Mrs. Rubasch

Great Work!

Nice job on your research projects! Both 7th and 8th grade projects turned out well. For the rest of the quarter...

7th graders will be reading The Diary of Anne Frank and we will resume our regular vocabulary routine with words given out on Monday, the review Wednesday, and the test on Friday. Study your words! We will also have quizzes and summaries for our journal work.

8th graders will be finishing Todd Strasser's The Wave. We will have daily quizzes over this short novel and will conclude by watching the film in class.

Both 7th and 8th grades: We will take our Buckle Down practice test form B before heading into the break.

Thanks for all your hard work,

Mrs. Rubasch

Winding Down

Hello Students and Parents! We have completed our nonfiction unit in both seventh and eighth grades and on Thursday and Friday, March 1st and 2nd, we will be presenting our final research projects in class. 7th graders have researched holidays from other countries and 8th graders have researched Olympic sports. I am eager to see all your hard work!

Thank you,

Mrs. Rubasch

Welcome Back!

We are off to a great start to this quarter! The LPA Honors Society just began tutoring students who are in need of help in their classes. If you need tutoring please see me and I will assign one to you. Tutoring takes place on Wednesdays from 11:30-12:30. We have also begun rehearsals for our school's production of The Taming of the Shrew. Seventh graders will be performing for the school a modern day adaptation of this play. Here is what's happening in Reading this month:

7th and 8th: We are beginning a nonfiction unit that will define the differences between literary and informative nonfiction. This week we have studied the personal essay, autobiography and memoir. Next week we will study biographies, letters, and journals. The following two weeks will be dedicated to informative nonfiction with scientific journals, historical documents, research papers, newspaper articles, reference materials, and functional text. We will conclude the unit with a group research project.

We are also continuing to work on Buckle Down and have completed Unit 1, part of unit 2, along with practice test form A. We will be reviewing all workbooks and practice tests in class. Unit 2 will be completed by the end of the month.

Thank you and have a great quarter!

Mrs. Rubasch