I looked at the calendar the other day and noticed that we only have 13 more days of LA in this trimester.  Craziness!

The big thing for this week is a narrative peer-critique that we’ll be doing in class on Tuesday.  Students need to have a strong draft of their narratives (the voiceover for the personalized video book reviews) by Tuesday so that they can fully participate.

Upcoming due dates:

Monday:  All 8th graders need to bring in a printed copy of the piece they are going to share for author’s night.

Tuesday: Strong draft of Narrative ready for Peer Critique at beginning of class.  (This was moved from last week.). This does NOT need to be printed — but it should be in bullet point format online.

Wednesday:  Final draft of Narrative complete.  (Not collected).  This should be in bullet point format and take between 2:30 and 4:30 to read out loud.  We’ll start “virtual storyboarding”  on this day.

Thursday:  Eighth grade author’s night beginning at 6pm.

Every day:  Read 30 minutes.

Have a great week!  -JF