Update -- 7th Grade Language Arts

The 7th grade continues to read The Diary of Anne Frank.  The students just created a project based on the novel.  They had to act as if they were going into hiding, and had to create a collage of items they would feel necessary to have in hiding, and ones they would leave behind.  

We are planning to take the 7th graders to the "Power of Children" exhibit at the Children's Museum early next semester.  Anne Frank is one of the children featured in the exhibit, and we feel it will be a valuable experience for our students.  We would also like to take the kids to see The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which is a motion picture located at Castleton Arts Theater.  It is a story of a Nazi soldier's son who befriends a Jewish boy during the Holocaust, and it ties in directly with the Anne Frank curriculum we are currently covering.

The 7th graders need some improvement with the Accelerated Reader program.  We are reading a joint novel in class aloud everyday; however, they also need to read independent novels on their own.  We'd like to see more improvement this quarter.  And remember, for those students who meet their AR goals by the end of quarter 2, you will get to join me for a movie and popcorn before Christmas break!