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Happy Thanksgiving Parents! Barb Coenen stopped by for her monthly Book Club activity. This time she had the kids make "thankful" banners. They turned out super cute and you can see it below. They read Two Thanksgiving Day Gentleman by O. Henry. They kids seemed to like it because it involved a lot of irony. 8th grade has just wrapped up their informative speeches. They were to present on something they know quite well so they could present rather than read off of note cards. Everyone did a fine job!  They will be finishing unit 3 next week, then we will move onto our poetry unit before reading novels as a class. They are really looking forward to both novel and poetry. 7th grade has been learning a lot about theme and symbols this past unit. They read Winter Dreams  by F Scott Fitzgerald. It was a difficult read by themselves but we spent a day discussing the symbols in the story and they said that helped. Next week they will be reviewing recurring theme in stories and

Hey Parents!  A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks, so let me give you a run down of what has been going on. 6th: This class read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for their Halloween story. Unfortunately it was just bad timing and poor planning on my part because usually this week is so much fun, but there was so many things going on that took away for a spook-tacular week! I just loved their book reports. I saw a lot of creativity and hard work in their little people. (In some cases the people weren't so little, but that is great!) They wrapped up unit 2 last week and took the test. Today they will be correcting the tests and moving on to unit 3. This unit is where we focus on theme and topic. They are currently working on making Thanksgiving cards for their adopt-a-soldier, Darrin. We found out he works in a hospital in the Middle East. Darrin is working on responding to some of their letters and cards from before.  7th: We read The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, my fa