Today marked the start of the last grading period for this school year. We have two students that have already earned all of their AR points for this last grading period: Aaron Buchanan and Brooklyn Herbert. Way to get off to a strong start!

Our root word today was mater, which means mother. The three example words we used were matriarchy, maternity, and mater-linear (from social studies).

Everyone reviewed the weekly lesson plans, learning that we have three W-R’s notebook homework entries to do this week. We haven’t had weekly W-R’s notebook homework in a while so Mrs. Scales reminded us that each entry should be about 1/2 of a page long or longer and must be labeled with a big H and the date written.

In class we continued on Day 8 of the Twain WebQuest. Each group is working to produce their presentation for the Kennedy Center. Today was the last amount of class time that will be given to work on the presentation (unless you are in period four – they get an extra day because of the party on Friday).

The last chunk of our literary circle books and the summarizer sheet are due on Friday. We can use our quick write time during this week to do our forum posts.