Romano’s Recipe for Reading and Writing

McClure’s Mouthwatering Munchies Cookbooks are on sale in the front office for $12.00. Great Holiday Gift!After the quiz on the anchor novels, students were then asked to refer back to the Essential Question of the Unit, “Can all conflicts be resolved?” Many of the conflicts that the characters in our novel have been faced with [...]

Today’s class continued to focus on writing persuasive and expository essays.  We reviewed the State rubric that will be used in scoring their writing assignments on the 8th grade writing assessment, and I showed them how I graded their persuasive writing prompts using this rubric.  We then discussed the necessity of having a clear thesis statement [...]

Today in class students completed their Anchor novel group projects.  Students were asked to identify and make a graphic organizer for five vocabulary words in chapters 1-6, write a five sentence summary about the novel, write five questions (with answers), and identify five literature terms that have been discussed in class and find examples of [...]

Today students were given a mock writing test in preparation for the 8th Grade Writing Assessment.  For this writing test, students were asked to write a persuasive essay about why homework should or should not be given to students.  They were required to use a graphic organizer for their prewriting, write a rough draft, revise [...]

In preparation for the 8th Grade Writing Assessment on January 20, 2010, we began our introduction of expository and peruasive writing.  On Monday, we looked at the GA standards for both of these types of writing.  Students took notes about what these genres of writing are, and how they can become successful writers of the [...]

Last week, students were introduced to the Unit 2 Anchor novels.  As a class, we previewed them in an attempt to have students choose books with which they could make connections.  The anchor novels for Unit 2 are:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Annie [...]

Class began today with our grammar blocks sentences.  Students were asked to   identify the parts of speech of each word in a sentence using their grammar blocks “Cheat Sheet.”  These were collected and will be graded.  We then went over these sentences, and we had a mini-lesson on compound sentences.  Compound sentences are when you have [...]