We are only 4 weeks away before students take the CRCT to help prepare our students in Language Arts and Literacy, students were given a packet in which they must review each night the material that we have covered thus far.
In class students will be doing a variety of different mini-lessons, group assignments, individual assignments, etc. as a way to review content the students should be familiar with at this point.
Week 1 (this week) will focus on sentences and The Eight Parts of Speech.
Week 2 (week beginning March 7th) will focus on literary elements such as main idea, author's purpose, point-of-view, etc.
Week 3 (week beginning March 14th) will focus on writing and research methods
Week 4 (week beginning March 21st) will be reinforcement of all areas.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Second Required Reading--Neptune's Honor
Students have begun reading the second required reading for 8th grade.
This novel, based on a real person living near the south Georgia Sea Islands, begins in 1837 and ends after the Civil War. As a child slave, Neptune Small was a helpmate and companion to the plantation family's oldest son, Henry Lord Page King. Just five months apart in age, they were inseparable throughout the boys' youth. As he comes of age, Neptune marries and begins a family. He accompanies Lordy when he enlists during the Civil War, and later brings his body home. At war's end, Neptune becomes a free man but chooses to remain with the King family. The story builds steadily until the beginning of the Civil War after which it shows how the war changed the plantation culture in the South.
This novel, based on a real person living near the south Georgia Sea Islands, begins in 1837 and ends after the Civil War. As a child slave, Neptune Small was a helpmate and companion to the plantation family's oldest son, Henry Lord Page King. Just five months apart in age, they were inseparable throughout the boys' youth. As he comes of age, Neptune marries and begins a family. He accompanies Lordy when he enlists during the Civil War, and later brings his body home. At war's end, Neptune becomes a free man but chooses to remain with the King family. The story builds steadily until the beginning of the Civil War after which it shows how the war changed the plantation culture in the South.
