Middle School Supply List 17/18
 
3″ Binder with at least 5 dividers
Loose leaf paper
6 composition notebooks
Pens: blue or black
#2 pencils
Enclosed pencil sharpener
Colored pencils (at least pack of 8)
Highlighters (2 different colors)
Glue stick
Scissors
Ruler (with inches and centimeters)
Pocket folders with 3 holes to keep in binder (6)
1 roll of paper towel
1 box of Kleenex
1 bottle of hand sanitizer
1 box of large zip lock bags
1 pack of 3″ x 5″ lined index cards
1 pack of graph paper
1 pack post-it notes
1 ream of copy paper
Safety goggles for science class

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Ray’s Summer Office Hours
July 18-20th, 10am-1pm
July 25-27th, 10am-1pm
August 8-10th, 10am-1pm
August 15-17th, 10 am-1pm
August 22-24th, 10am-1pm
August 28-Sept. 1st, 8:45-3:45 pm
 
*And by appointment only
Principal, Megan Thole: mmthole@cps.edu
Assistant Principal, Gayle Harris-Neely: gpharrisneely@cps.edu
 
SY17-18 Information
Orientation & Class Assignment Dates
August 29th: 7th & 8th @ 2:45
August 30th: 5th & 6th @ 2:45
August 31st: K-4th @ 2:45
 
First Day of School
Tuesday, September 5th
 
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8th grade 

NWEA testing begins this week.  Please be sure to get a good nights rest and a healthy breakfast each morning so that you can do your best on the test.  

7th grade
We will continue reading our novel, The Outsiders and analyzing the text through text dependent questions and literary terms.  We will have a Vocabulary test - part 1, this week.  Study! Study! Study!

Mon. and Tues. - Study for your vocabulary test and read chapter 10
Wednesday - Part 1 Vocab.test 
Thurs. Read ch11

7th grade
This week we will be starting our new novel, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.  The students will have an opportunity to examine the novel from many different views.  We will conflict, characterization, point of view, theme, foreshadowing, and vocabulary.  Students should be reading the novel each night and marking book logs, being careful not to read ahead of assigned reading.

Homework board
Monday - complete S.E. Hinton bio questions (3)
Tuesday - read chapter 1
Wednesday - Describe 5 characters and predict the role each might play; use textual support; read up to pg. 26 
Thursday - Complete character analysis

Note:  All 7th grade students should have completed and turned in their project for The Giver!

8th Grade
This week we will be finishing To Kill a Mockingbird.  The students have done a great job at keeping up with the text and analyzing the details.  Once we finish the book, we will watch the film, and then we will begin our argumentative essay by the end of next week.  

Homework board
Monday - read chapters 25-26
Tuesday - read chapter 27
Wednesday - finish the book

 

7th grade
We will finish the text The Giver this week.  All students should have the book completely read by Wednesday of this week.  We will continue to analyze the text using evidence to support as well as identify themes found in the text.  Students will be given an end of the unit project  which will be due the Friday after Spring Break, April 21st.  

Homework board
Monday - Read ch. 21
Tuesday - Read ch. 22-23
Wednesday and Friday - Project

8th grade
We will continue to read the book To Kill a Mockingbird.  All students should be reading the assigned chapter each night and prepare for our daily notes and reading checks.  We will continue to analyze the text using evidence to support as well as determining who continues to take a stand.  

Homework board
Monday - Read ch.15
Tuesday - Read ch. 16-17
Wednesday Read ch. 18
Thursday - Read ch. 19

7th grade

This week we will continue reading our novel, The Giver.  We will be focusing on theme and foreshadowing along with discussing important events in the book.  Students will continue to support all ideas with evidence/direct quotes from the book.  

Homework board - Read every night and remember to mark your book logs
Monday - Read ch. 14 and answer chapter question
Tuesday - Read ch. 15-16 
Wednesday - Read ch.17 and answer 1 question
Thursday - Read ch. 18-19 and answer 1 question
Friday - Read ch. 20 and complete foreshadowing assignment

8th Grade 

This week we will continue reading our novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.  We will be focusing on symbolism, interpreting quotes from the text, along with discussing important events in the book.  Students will continue to support all ideas with evidence/direct quotes from the novel.  

Homework board - Read every night and remember to mark your book logs
Monday - Read ch. 10
Tuesday - Read ch. 11 - (notebooks due for 304) 
Wednesday - Read ch.12, complete vocabulary using 3-column chart and respond to 1 question; 304 only - complete 1 question about Maycomb 
Thursday - 

8th grade

We have started our new unit on To Kill a Mockingbird.  Students are expected to do the majority of the reading on their own, at home every night.  We will be discussing the two themes "taking a stand" and "treating others the way you want to be treated."  We will do this through text-dependent questions, objective summaries, character analysis, symbolism, foreshadowing/flashback, close reading, plot, and text to movie comparison/contrast. 

Homework board

Monday  - ch. 4 vocabulary and 1 daily notes questions
Tuesday - Read ch. 5 and complete vocab and complete the 3 in-class questions
Wednesday - Read ch. 6-7, finish in-class writing


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7th grade

We have started our new unit on The Giver.  Students are expected to do the majority of the reading on their own, at home every night.  We will be discussing the following two themes, "Respecting and accepting individuality"  and "Not opting for conformity."  We will do this through the following skills practice:  objective summaries, character analysis, whole/small group discussion, text-dependent questions, close reading, plot, comparing/contrasting and locating relevant textual evidence.  

Homework board

Monday - Read ch. 7 and 8
Tuesday - Read ch.9 and respond to discussion question
Wednesday - Read ch. 10-11 and complete in class compare and contrast writing assignment.