What's Happening in Room 10?

7th Grade Reading and Language Arts

We are reading the novel A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck, a historical fiction novel about a teenager named Mary Alice who has to temporarily move in with her eccentric grandma during the Great Depression. As we read, we'll be focusing on how the time period affects the characters and plot, and we'll be learning various skills such as using context clues, analyzing figurative language, and making inferences. 
As always, we'll be continuing to read independently and study vocabulary and grammar along the way.

8th Grade Reading and Language Arts

We are reading the play The Diary of Anne Frank, which is a dramatic adaptation of The Diary of a Young Girl, the novel that the students read over the summer. The students pick parts and read the play out loud, and we discuss it and compare it to the novel. We are currently focusing on dialogue and how it reveals characterization and plot.
As always, we'll be continuing to read independently and study vocabulary and grammar along the way.

7th Grade Religion and Peace

This chapter of our Religion book is focused on truth: what truth means, why it is important to seek it, and how we can find it through God as well as other ways in our lives. In our Peace class, we are learning how to put the Rules for Fighting Fair into practice and avoid "fouls." In their villages, students are preparing and performing skits to teach their classmates how to do this.