Announcements



==== Poetry Test on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Students will be assessed on "Casey at the Bat" and four other baseball related poems. Additionally students will need to know imagery, rhyme pattern, personification, simile, metaphor, and alliteration. ====

Progress reports will be sent home on Thursday, April 4, 2013.
=== FOURTH NINE-WEEKS: Parents and students, beginning the fourth grading period, missing assignments are no longer posted for students. This assists students with the transition to high school and requires a higher level of responsibility. You are strongly encouraged to check INOW on a daily basis. Students will not be able to submit late work and must request work from absences. ===

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Progress Reports will be sent home on January 24. Currently, we only have four grades because our class focus has been on reading and discussing literature. Any student who has even one missing assignment, will have an average much lower than usual! Please check STI Home for specific details regarding your child's grades. Students have u ntil February 2 to turn in any of the four assignments, he/she may be missing. Students will have two more grades taken this week with quizzes on the novel, Nothing But the Truth.

Report Cards for the 2nd nine-weeks will go home Thursday, January 10.

10/22/12-Verb Test Wednesday, October 24. Be able to identify action and linking verbs, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nouns, and predicate adjectives. REPORT CARDS GO HOME ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. OPEN HOUSE ON OCTOBER 25. ==9/30/12-Vocabulary 2 Test on Wednesday, October 3. Capitalization/Punctuation Quiz on Thursday, October 4. No School on Friday, October 5! ==

== 9/30/12-5th Period grades will not be updated for last week because of club meetings! We will be back on schedule this week for fifth period. Remember Library is scheduled for Monday, and planners will be checked on Thursday. ==

= 9/24-Pronoun Test on Wednesday, September 26. =

=9/8/12-Progress Reports will go home September 18! Check INOW for current grades and averages. = =9/2/12-Expect a Vocabulary 1 Test and Noun Quiz Next Week, probably Wednesday! =

=8/31/12-Great Job on Blogs and Portfolios! =

Signed Syllubus due Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Inspiration Essay Due Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Blog #1 Due Friday, August 31, 2012. Portfolio Project and Presentation Due Friday, August 31.