October 10 - October 14

English
Periods 1, 4, 6, & 8

Please note that there is no school on Monday.

This week students will continue to study the excerpt from An Invisible Thread.  Students will continue to work on adjectives, vocabulary, and narrative point of view.  Toward the end of the week, we will be writing an essay to compare "A Simple Act" and the excerpt from An Invisible Thread.  Students will analyze ways in which the authors of the two pieces present information about the same topic: the friendship between Laura and Maurice.  Students will gather evidence from the texts, plan using a graphic organizer, write a first draft, and review/revise.

There will be a grammar quiz on Friday.  Look for a practice quiz/study guide on Thursday.  Your student should bring one home to study the material.  The highlighted areas correspond with the skills that each individual needs to work on for the quiz.  No highlighting means that your student has mastered the concepts.

We will have a test on An Invisible Thread on Monday, October 17, 2016.  Your child will receive a study guide on Wednesday.  I will also send one to parents via email.

The only homework this week is to study.


PSSA SSR
Period 2

Students are to read independently from bell to bell.  As students finish books, they are to write book recommendations to be displayed on the bulletin board.

Career Exploration
Periods 3 & 7

Students will be wrapping up the shark tank entrepreneurship unit with the last of the presentations taking place on Tuesday.  We'll be moving into a unit on wages starting on Wednesday.