ELA Week of May 8-12

6th and 7th Grade:  This week the two grades will begin their week by presenting their research and teaching the class about one of the three African American women they were assigned from “Hidden Figures”.  We will then begin reading the novel.  The novel will be...

ELA Week of 5/1-5/5

6th and 7th Grade will be beginning a novel called “Hidden Figures”.  This is a novel about the African American women who pioneers space exploration by being “Human Computers” for NASA.   In order to introduce the book, which is historical...

ELA: Week of 4/24-4/28

This week in ELA, we wrap up Poetry Month. This week’s focus will be the poetic term Personification.  We will first review the word, then read a poem that includes this poetic device.  Next we will focus on writing original poems using personification as the...

ELA 4/17-4/21

This week all classes will work on Vocabulary Unit 12.  Words will be discussed in class and then homework will be nightly assignments to complete with a test on Friday. We will be continuing our poetry unit with a focus on “Theme”. 6th and 7th grade will...

ELA April 3-5

For this short week, after much review and a quiz on poetic terms, we will officially begin our poetry unit. Grade 6 will read a Shel Silverstien poem entitiled One Inch Tall and will write their own poems envisioning thier life as 15 feet tall. Grade 7 will read...