October 20th-24th
8th 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.
7th 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.
