Ms. Castle’s Language Arts Laboratory

All students will turn in their Literature Books this week. Thursday and Friday of this week we will have a guest speaker.

Students will be bringing home a list of courses recommended for the 8^th grade year. This verification is not your child’s schedule, but simply a list of courses he/she will be taking next year. Also attached to this sheet is the “Student Data Verification” form for your child. Please make any changes/additions directly on the form and return to your child’s homeroom teacher no later than May 13^th, 2008.

Students there are 15 days of school left in the school year. With that being said let’s remember to end the school year on a positive note. I will be continuing to take grades these last days please do your best as these grades may raise or lower your grade.  We also will continue with DGP until the end of the school year.

Continue with Folk Tales

Students there are 15 days of school left in the school year. With that being said let’s remember to end the school year on a positive note. I will be continuing to take grades these last days please do your best as these grades may raise or lower your grade.  We also will continue with DGP until the end of the school year.

Monday – Happy Cinco De Mayo  - continue Cinderella Stories

Tuesday – Continue Cinderella Stories

Wednesday – Cinderella Stories DUE  

Thursday - What makes a folk tale?

Friday – What is an interesting way to tell a story?

Your homework was to check out the AJC real estate section, and the online version of the section ….. Hope you did your homework

^{This week in the Language Arts classroom we will be reading “Master Frog” a Vietnamese Folktale retold by Lynette Dyer Voung.  After reading this story I want you think about which Disney story this story may resemble. Again we will continue with DGP and a Spelling and Vocabulary quiz on Friday.}

^{Vocabulary Words}

^{Metamorphosis}

^admonished

^entreaties

^charade

^presumptuous

^cowered

^{Giang Dung}

^silkworms

^winced

^palanquin

Reminder Book Reports are DUE May 13th …. In addition next week will begin the Tiered Activity Lesson …. with a GROUP project….. and you will not be able to choose your groups .

Periods 4-8

We will begin our unit on Fairytales, Folktales, and myths. We begin this unit with a comparison of Cinderella stories. How many different Cinderella stories can you think of? What is the binding central theme in all of these different stories?  We will read Aschenputtel on p. 593. Vocabulary words for the story are listed below and can be found in your literature book.

This week we will have vocabulary quiz on Friday, April 25^th. You will have plenty of time in class to work on the words from the story in order to prepare for the quiz.  Monday will a CRCT make up day for anyone who might have missed the test. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday will be CRCT testing for math, science, and social studies. The days that I see your class period we will continue with Cinderella stories.  In the following weeks I will be collecting your literature books , please make sure that you have YOUR Literature book and not another student’s book.  And yes we will be continuing with DGP this week.

Motif

Pious

Kirtle

Expired

Ordained

Persisted

Pitch

Stunted

Curry favor

Simultaneously

Mustang Days

Parents t-shirt form for Hopewell Mustang Days (Field Day) are being sent home this week . The cost for the t-shirt is $10.00. Payment MUST be made in advance by cash or check. All checks should be made out to Hopewell Middle School. Orders will be Taken April 17^th – 24^th. APRIL 24^th IS THE LAST AND FINAL DAY to take orders from students. Any orders received after Thursday, April 24^th will be returned and not accepted. 

This year we are teamed with Mrs. Silverman and our team color is GREEN!!!

Welcome Back from Spring Break !!!!!  I hope that everyone is well rested and ready for the CRCT exams that begin on Thursday of this week.

 This week students will spend the majority of the week reviewing a few key concepts before the testing begins.  Monday – CRCT review, Compound/Complex/Simple sentence review, Review of transition words used when writing.  Tuesday – CRCT review, Adjective/ Adverb clause review and relative pronouns.  Wednesday – CRCT review, Conjunctions , Verb tenses, and reading passage review. Thursday – 1^st day of CRCT testing – Reading test . Friday – CRCT Language Arts test. 

 CRCT testing will continue Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week. It is imperative that all students arrive on time to school and get a good nights rest.