Eighth Grade English News

April 23 to 30

 

The poetry project turned out to be a great success.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the fine creative work.  Better yet, I believe the students also enjoyed the time they spent working on it. 

The Unit 15 test should be on Thursday if all goes as planned.  It shouldn’t be too painful as it only deals with three concepts, the participle, gerund, and infinitive.  I have given each student a study guide which reviews all we have studied about verbs and a review of the verbals of Unit 15.  It shows the students that what they already have learned about verbs is far greater than the three concepts in Unit 15.

As an added note, I’m very proud of one of our fourth graders, Emma Koontz, who is a semi-finalist in the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative Essay writing contest.  She was chosen as one of the 156 semi-finalists from among 18,000 + entries.  That is quite an honor.  It was well worth the time spent coordinating this project.  Cathedral Grade School is packed with so many talented students.