Students in grades 6, 7, and 8 will have homework Monday through Thursday in Language Arts.
Additionally, students should be reading their Lit Circle books and working on their Lit Circle folders every night.
Monday - all students will be assigned their pages on their Six Traits Book. Those pages are due on Friday. All students will be given a new Chunk It page and story. This is due on Friday as well.
Monday is also the study of our Greek and Latin Roots. Students will also be given homework on one of the reading strategies, ie main idea, summarizing, drawing conclusions, etc.
Tuesday - We will grade Monday's homework and hopefully spend time reading our classroom novel.
Wednesday - The grammar packet from last Wednesday is due, and students will be given a fresh grammr packet.
Thursday - 6th grade - spelling unit that was assigned last Thursday will be graded and students will be assigned the next unit to be completed for next Thursday. 7th & 8th grade vocab units will be graded and students will be assigned the next unit which will be due for the next Thursday.
Friday - The Six Traits pages from Monday will be graded and the Chunk It sheet will be graded. Students will take a quiz on the Chunk It story.
Each day, as time permits, we will read our classroom novel.
LIT CIRCLE IS DUE EVERY OTHER WEEK - STUDENTS SHOULD BE WORKING ON IT EVERY NIGHT.
CHECK THE FRONT PAGE OF YOUR CHILD'S FOLDER TO FIND THE DUE DATES.