Gretchen Buis - Language Arts

Following several weeks of grammar and reading comprehension focus in preparation for Terra Novas and taking Terra Novas last week, we rested a bit this week.  The sixes have been reading selections in their literature books, the sevens have finished Anne Frank which was followed up with the Holocaust video, Everyone Has a Name.  The eights finished Macbeth while simultaneously working on term papers.  Everyone should have completed the first fourteen lessons in their vocabulary workbooks.  Following break, the eights should  be into the writing rather than the research component of their papers. Hopefully, May will also leave room for Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream.  The sevens will taste a bit of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskerville, as well as A Midsummer's Night Dream and ideally The Witch of Blackbird Pond. The sixes will read Roll Of Thunder Hear my Cry. For now, my best to everyone for a restful spring break.