November 26-29

Full, well rested and ready to go! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Just a few
announcements for the week.

All school writing WASL practice, Thursday
End of the semester, Thursday
No school on Friday

I will be sending home progress reports on Monday, but if you want to check to see what you child's final semester grade is you can log onto skyward Friday after 1:00. Students will have until THURSDAY to turn in any missing assignments for partial credit. Please take a look at these reports and encourage your child to get in as many as they can.

7th grade literature will be focusing on dictionary and resource skills.
8th grade literature will be focusing on theme this week.
ALSO, THE DECEMBER NON-FICTION BOOK REVIEW TRI-BOARD WILL BE DUE JANUARY 15TH RATHER THAN DECEMEBER 15TH. This was due to the extended schedule for November's presentations.

Writing classes will be making corrections on their persuasive final and reviewing four square in regard to expository text.

Study Skills will be finishing with several leadership activities and a potential field trip to Mcdonalds or Subway for eighth graders who are interested in getting a job.

Have a wonderful week.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Steelers (Monday night football against Miami)

Mrs. Bowman

November 19-20

Careful . . . if you blink you may miss this week! Even though we only have two days, don't underestimate their importance.

Literature classes will be finishing up book review presentations. I will also be collecting journals, since the last two weeks have been combined.

Writing classes will be typing up their final persuasive paper in the lab.

Study skills classes will be continuing with leadership/citizenship activities.

Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving holiday!
Mrs. Bowman

November 13-16

Another short week! As you can tell by the academic calendar, the end of the semester is just around the corner. It's important that your child turns in all of these last assignments. For some students one assignment can make or break their grade. This is also a huge week for my Literature Classes. Book reviews start on Thursday and students will be randomly drawn to determine the order in which they will be presenting. ALL STUDENTS WILL BE PRESENTING THEIR INFORMATION.

In writing, students will be continuing working on their persuasive papers. As well as taking a quiz on Thursday over vocabulary in persuasive writing.

Literature Classes will be finishing up their last details for their presentations that start on Thursday.

Study Skills will be working on various leadership and citizenship activities.

Have a wonderful week! (Don't forget the Hawks on Monday night football!)

November 5-9

Wow, how about last week! Crazy, no power Monday, Mrs. Bowman out with a sick kid on Tuesday, and Halloween on Wednesday, it was rough.

Monday the entire school will be going to the Capitol Theatre. We are scheduled to leave around 9 am and return at 12:30 pm. We will be eating lunch when we return and then the students will be either attending the dance or other activity in the afternoon.

Also, due to the power outage, progress reports were delayed a week. You should see those on Tuesday. Remember, please sign and get those in Wednesday. These grades are up to date and pay attention to your child's book review grade. They have their second book review due November 15th. The assignment is worth 20% of student's overall grade and I have several students who chose not to do them.

In literature this week, we will be continuing with Point of View and working on book review presentations(due the 15th).

In writing, we will be continuing persuasive writing with emphasis on vocabulary.

Study Skills-will be looking at the Pearls Project and coming up with a plan implementation.

Have a wonderful week
Mrs. Bowman-----GO STEELERS (Monday night football)

P.S. Thanks Jennifer for my first comment, I loved it!