NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER

6th, 7th, and 8th GRADE WEEKLY REMINDER QUEST
*The middle school will take a Weekly Reminder Quest on Friday, November 11th over 11 reminders and 12 Words of the Week. These cover frequent errors in writing and spelling.
6TH GRADE
Grammar (6.6.6, 6.6.2)
*Prepositions are proving to be very difficult. Many students do not have a solid grasp on prepositions, therefore, we are struggling with phrases and modifiers.
*We will be wrapping up prepositions this month and having a quest on them.
*We will move into Chapter 14 covering pronouns.
Writing (6.5.1,6.5.6,6.5.7)
*We are finishing up on our prayers for the class prayer book.
*We will then be writing fairy tales.
Diagramming (7.6.4)
*We will diagram adverb prepositional phrases this month.

7th GRADE
Grammar (7.6.6,7.6.7,7.6.2)
*We will be finally finishing up on Chapter 26 on punctuation. This chapter was super long and covered every punctuation mark from period to hyphen.
*We will then move on to Chapter 20 covering clauses.
Writing (7.5.5,7.5.7,7.2.2,)
*We have finished our study of advertising and wrote a toy ad.
*We will be working on biographies in November.
Diagramming (7.6.4)
*We will diagram prepositional phrases.

8th GRADE
Grammar (7.6.4)
*We are finishing up our study of adjectives and adverbs. There will be a quest over them this month.
Writing/Speaking (8.7.15,8.7.4,8.5.5,8.5.7,8.5.6)
*We will be writing a technical paragraph describing the steps to performing some action with an object. Some examples include turning on the TV with a remote control, using the blender, and selecting a song on an iPod. We will also present these in class.
Diagramming (7.6.4)
*We will be diagramming predicate nouns and adjectives.