Ms. Boyce’s Blog

8th Grade: During the last two and half weeks, eighth graders will be finishing up writing the rough drafts of their biography papers, peer editing a classmate’s paper, producing the final copy (due Wednesday, December 10th — for five points of extra credit, it will be due Tuesday, December 9th), and creating a written Christmas keepsake. The vocabulary test (#4) is scheduled for Tuesday, December 16th.

**There will be no assignments given over Christmas break; the only thing students should be concerned with is having fun and spending quality time with family and friends over this wonderful holiday. Half the year has gone by, and I’m enjoying how much fun these eighth graders are. We have a great group of students, and I appreciate them all!

Merry Christmas!

7th Grade: As Christmas approaches, seventh graders will be hard at work, but hopefully having fun with our new writing project. Seventh graders are now magazine writers, writing and conducting an interview followed by formulating the structure of their written article. The finalized product will be in a magazine format, and it is tentatively due on Monday, December 15th (or for five points of extra credit, it can be handed in on Friday, December 12th). During that week, students will design and illustrate the actual article while I am grading their copy. When they return from break, I will hand back their graded papers, and they will make the necessary corrections in order to glue the final, final copy to the article. Since we just completed a large unit on sentence variation and punctuation, I have high expectations that students will integrate the skills we have learned into their written work. The vocabulary test (#4) is scheduled for Tuesday, December 16th.

**There will be no assignments given over Christmas break; the only thing students should be concerned with is having fun and spending quality time with family and friends over this wonderful holiday. Please know I have really enjoyed getting to know these seventh graders; they are growing up quickly!

Merry Christmas!