8th: Finish all parts of the TEST READY workbook and the additional handout for NJASK practice.

7th: Finish your TEST READY workbook and complete the practice reading comprehension for NJASK on "The Sea" and "Winter Dog".

6th: Read thoroughly and complete packets "Making Inferences" & "Distinguishing Facts from Opinions". Be prepared for a quiz on Monday on which you will be asked to practice these skills.

8th: Brief class time will be given to complete your thesis statements, due tomorrow. Answer #1-6 for the poem "Living Tenderly" by Mary Swenson. Read pp. 585-586 in the packet "Evaluating Print Sources" and be prepared to take a quiz on the six key words that are defined on p. 585.

7th: Complete Lesson 6 in the TEST READY booklet.

6th: The first draft of your research paper is due tomorrow!

No homework tonight due to Science Expo preparation!

HAVE A WONDERFUL SPRING BREAK! GOOD SEDER AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE THESE BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAYS!

All grades: Vocabulary Lesson 27 is due on Tuesday, April 26!

8th: Choose one quote from your quotation packet and write an essay about it. You may also write about your graduation quote, if you prefer. Follow the directions on the handout:

"Famous Quotes that Stick"

Choose a graduation quote and type it into the online form by clicking the cap on this page. Take notes for your research paper if possible.

7th: Work on your Independent Reading Book packet -- fill in at least one page of the vocabulary log and begin to fill in the Character description chart/page. If you don't have your packet at home, just write down the words on a separate piece of paper!:)

6th: "Simile and Metaphors" packet. The first draft of your research report is due on Thursday, April 28, so if you want to start typing it up, using your notecard packet, just get started! :)

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8th: Quote Interpretation Essay. Locate your book source and/or print an additional source for your research paper by April 26. Read in your SSR!

7th: Read "The War of the Wall" on p. 328 in your online textbook. Complete p. 53 & 57 in the packet.

6th: Fill in the boxes on your Quote Interpretation packet "United we stand, divided we fall" Read "Sea Fever" in your online textbook, p. 560. Complete pp. 50 & 51 in the packet.

All grades: Vocabulary Test 25/26 tomorrow!

8th: complete the next quotation interpretation!

7th: complete the Helen Keller quotation interpretation!

6th: complete your notecard packet for tomorrow.

8th: Topics are due for your research paper, hand in your "Exploring 3 possible topics" worksheet (fill in 3 topics that you've learned about). Complete the review questions for the Dodgeball articles, on the handout.

7th: "No Man is an Island" fill in the quotation interpretation page.

6th: Continue working on your notecard packet. The entire packet will be due on Thursday. Complete the worksheet practice with transitions and commas. Rewrite the words of "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Vocabulary Lesson 26 due tomorrow! All grades!

8th: Read in your new SSR!

7th: Finish reading "Amigo Brothers" and complete pp. 27, 32, 34 in your packet.

6th: The notecard packet is due on Wednesday so continue your research on Monday and Tuesday nights! Interpret the next quote: "A closed mind is like a closed book, nothing more than a block of wood"

8th: Investigate topics to select for next week! Look for a poem for your literary day project.

7th: Poetry website : www.myfavoritepoem.org . Write 50 words about 3 different poems.

Quote interpretation page.

6th: Poetry website : www.myfavoritepoem.org . Write 50 words about 3 different poems.

Quote interpretation page.

8th: Prepare for Socratic Seminar tomorrow! Bring notes!

7th: #1, 2, 3 (questions following the article on Mars)

6th: complete one more page of notecards in your packet on the next sub-topic. Quote interpretations are a challenging form of writing/thinking and may appear on the NJASK. Analyze the first quote by filling in all of the boxes on the chart completely: "There was never any honey made with just one bee in the hive"

HOLISTIC SPRING WRITING ASSESSMENT: FRIDAY APRIL 8 (All grades, all teachers & their classes)

8th: choose a question to answer for the film version of TKAM. Prepare for the Socratic Seminar on Thursday by locating quotations/evidence from the novel to support your point of view.

7th: Complete the graphic organizer, listing the reasons both authors used to support their position on athletes salaries.

6th: Take notes for one sub-topic, filling 3 sides of the notecard packet. Bring all of your sources to class tomorrow. We will review Vocab Lesson 25 tomorrow.

ALL GRADES: Vocabulary Lesson 25 is due tomorrow!

GRADE 8: Please submit Library Creative Writing Contest Entries by tomorrow!!

8th: Prepare for the Socratic Seminar.

7th: Quotation Interpretation Handout, side #2. Also, complete p. 108 in your packet "Vocabulary Practice" for "Do Athletes Earn Unfair Salaries?"

6th: Bring your book sources, articles and research packets tomorrow.