Those root words are really starting to make sense.  Again, nearly everyone scored above the 80% mark on the big final root word test for this grading period.  Way to go 7^th graders!  The few students who did not score 62 or more points on the test have to study and retake the test sometime between now and next Tuesday.

Classroom participation points will be due soon; the grading period ends next Friday.  Today, everyone had the chance to submit their essays of 300 words or less to Creative Communications at poeticpower.com.  After that revisions were made to the essays and everyone with a 350 – 500 word essay submitted those essays to Face-Off contest.  Each essay submitted to a contest is worth 5 classroom participation points.

Mrs. Scales also told us that we are adjusting the lesson plans for this week and no one has to have three poems ready to turn in by Friday.

The biggest news today concerned the daily homework we are doing.  So many people scored high on Monday’s homework that it was announced that anyone who gets a 9 or 10 on three homework assignments won’t have to do the daily homework anymore.  Talk about incentive.