October 5

We Are Root Word Pros

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 7th 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.


Posted October 5, 2011 by mrsscales207 in category Language Arts

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My life has taken many paths. I grew up in Farmland, Indiana and graduated from Monroe Central High School in 1979. Yes I know that seems like a long time ago to most of you. After I graduated from High School, I went into the U. S. Navy. Not a lot of women enlisted in the Navy back then. Boot camp was still segregated (that means there were only women in my boot camp) and yes, boot camp is as bad as they say it is. I survived though and began seeing a little more of the world than just our lovely corn and soy bean fields of Indiana. I was an advanced avionics technician and worked on F14 Tomcat jets in the Navy. Back then women couldn't go on ships but I was stationed in Bermuda for a little over a year. Bermuda is beautiful and the people are warm and friendly. I married my husband while in the Navy and we eventually moved to Minnesota.

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