Language Arts & Literature Assignments/Homework

Welcome to Middle School Language Arts & Literature

Information/Curriculum

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Download a copy of the Book and Genre Requirement Tally Sheet here

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Library Assignments
* Middle school students will have the opportunity to  check out books from the school library on Fridays.  (Check library OPAC to see what is available).

Middle School Language Arts & Literature Assignments
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6th Grade Assignments
Week of October 18 - October 22
6th Grade LA/LIT Block 8:25 - 9:55 Daily

Monday - Friday:  Class begins at 8:25 and morning drop off is between 8:10-8:25.  This week, we will finish up  working on understanding the nine required genres for independent reading.    Student will continue working on the reading logs (using Google Sheets) that we started on Thursday.  We will be practicing identifying fragment sentences and correct sentences by analyzing writing in a real story.  Mid-week students will begin brainstorming, pre-writing and drafting a personal narrative "Hair" story (clear directions and rubric will be given out in class).  Hair story first drafts will be due on Friday.  Students will also be praying one decade of the Rosary this week, outdoors on a guided Rosary Walk as we celebrate our Rosary Week.

7th Grade Assignments

Week of:  October 18 - October 22
7th Grade LA/LIT Block 1:00 - 2:40 Daily
 
Monday - Friday: We will not have Spelling this week.  Students will continue leading prayer this week.  On Thursday we will start at the top of the alphabet and go through the whole class list with one student leading per day.  Students will go in alphabetical order.  They just need to bring a hard copy of the prayer they choose to read to turn in and were given directions and a rubric for this in class last week.  We are starting our Author Research projects this week.  Students will work with a partner on this.  This week students will be choosing their author and focusing on about one research question/topic per day (some will require two days).  We will be using graphic organizers to record and organize our information.  Graphic organizers started in class will be due the following day. The final projects will be due toward the end of next week.

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8th Grade Assignments

Week of October 18 - October 22
8th Grade LA/LIT Block 10:20-12:00 Daily

Monday-Friday:   Students have begun leading prayer for our class.  We started this a couple of weeks ago.  Students are leading in alphabetical order, once student per day.  We will start over from the beginning of the alphabet on Wednesday.  We will continue with Latin roots this week (Manu words), with a practice assignment given Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and due the following day.  We will have a  vocabulary quiz over the words on Friday.  This week students will be finishing up analyzing the story from our literature books, "Of Men and Mountains."  We will pay special attention to analyzing the effect of point of view.  We will also continue work with some of the story vocabulary and work on editing. We will have a quiz over the text sometime toward the end of next week.