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