MARCH FAMILY PROBLEM

WORLD POETRY DAY IS MARCH 21ST!

With your family make up a poem about each other using a couplet rhyme (pairs of lines rhyme)or alliteration (repeated sounds). The poem can be about the entire family or each person in your family. Maybe you could do a pair of lines for each member or an alliteration line about each member. For an added bonus point/Chance Ticket, you can include a picture to represent the poem. These are due by Wednesday, March 31st.

March Newsletter

6th, 7th, and 8th Grade:
The quarterly and cumulative Weekly Reminder Quest is coming up the week of March 15th. It will most probably be that Friday, March 19th.
6th Grade
Grammar:
*Some of the students are working on mastering the nine verb tenses (regular, perfect, and progressive). There will be a retest the week of March 8th. 6.6.2
*We will then work on Chapter 27 covering capitalization. There will be quizzes and practice pages to accompany this chapter. 6.6.4
Writing:
*Some students are working on a creative piece of writing that explains how to write a paragraph. It is a visual image of the parts of a paragraph. 6.5.2, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, and 6.4.10
*We are working on writing various types of poems. This is in honor of World Poetry Day celebrated on March 21st. Some students will be submitting their poems to the Creative Communications Poetry Spring Contest. 6.5.7 and 6.6.4,
*The students will write a business letter to a business either praising or criticizing the service they were provided. This will hopefully be mailed when finished. 6.5.7, 6.5.6, 6.6.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, and 6.6.1.
Diagramming
*We will be learning how to diagram compound sentences.

7th and 8th Grade
Pentathlon
*We are wrapping up the rigorous testing over grammar and writing.
*Poems should be memorized for the week of March 22nd. We will practice them that Monday and Tuesday, and they will be performed for Mrs. Asher on that Thursday and Friday. Each poem will need a prop to accompany it. Keep practicing! 7.7.2, 7.7.5,

*We will also be writing biographical summaries of the poets who authored the poems, as well as the reasons for choosing the poems, and their themes. 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.5.7, 8.3.7, 8.5.2, 8.5.1, 8.3.1, 8.7.2, and 8.5.7

7th Grade:

Grammar

*We will be working on Chapter 21 focusing on sentence structure. We will also be learning about misplaced modifiers and how to correct them. 7.6.1 and 7.6.10

Writing
*We will be beginning journals that will lead to a research report. This will spill over into April. 7.5.3

8th Grade:

Grammar

*It has been awhile, but we need to revisit participles, gerunds, and infinitives. 8.6.8

Writing

*We will be journaling on various technical topics to then be developed into a step by step process on how to operate some item. 8.5.5

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March Book Clubs

Don't forget that you have until Friday, March 4, 2010 in school and Sunday, March 6, 2010 online to order from the Tab, Arrow, and Humor&Poetry book flyers. Our user name is CougarLanguage and our password is Scholastic. Thank you for your support as your ordering helps me to order new books for my classroom for all the middle school students to read.