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8th Grade: Happy Halloween! In continuation with our public speaking unit, students will be practicing some effective debating skills, writing their speech outline, and preparing their visual representation for their speech. We’ll also continue work with our third vocabulary unit.

7th Grade: Happy Halloween! This week is a continuation of our punctuation unit, but also a review and practice of debating skills. There will be a pop quiz on commas, semicolons, and colons near the end of the week; please make sure students are reviewing their punctuation marks daily. We’ll also continue work with our third vocabulary unit.

8^th Grade: Students will be continuing on their public speaking unit. The speech topic will be assigned by Thursday, research will be done in the computer lab on Friday, and the outline will be worked on the following week. Vocab #2 Test is on Monday (definitions need to be written out on the test). The third Vocabulary unit will be handed out later in the week.

7^th Grade: Students will be continuing the punctuation unit. Workbook pages from the Zaner-Bloser Grammar Series will be the main source of homework this week. Later in the week, we’ll be discussing and practicing effective debating skills (to prepare for the debate next week in History). Vocab #2 Test is on Monday (definitions need to be written out on the test). The third Vocabulary unit will be handed out later in the week.