As we just celebrated Thanksgiving, one major aspect of KAS that I am thankful for is the support and encouragement I am receiving from parents. Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and support to ensure that the students are receiving a great education. It is a pleasure to work with each of you.
Students need to be reading nightly in order to truly improve upon their reading skills. The DGP (Daily Grammar Practice) notes should be studied 10 minutes a day. Students should study only one section per day.
Monday-Study Monday notes only. Tuesday-Study Tuesday notes only. Wednesday-Study Wednesday notes only. Thursday-Study Thursday notes only. Friday-Study Appendix B.
Seventh Grade
Students are finishing up our introduction to poetry. THE MIC is a new strategy to help students analyze and evaluate a poem. Students completed a poetry scavenger hunt where they were given anthologies in which they used to identify different aspects of poems.
Eighth Grade
Students are working on a specific type of poetry called Spoken Word. Spoken Word poems are created for performance. Students are using a variety of figurative language that portray their topic. This is a very different style of writing compared to writing paragraphs. It requires students to think outside of the box and state something without directly stating it. Students will be expected to memorize and perform their poems. The students also learned a new strategy for analyzing and evaluating poetry called TPCASTT. It requires students to delve deeper into the meaning of the text and use higher level thinking skills.
All
The midterm exam is coming up in about three weeks. Students will have three different types of text. Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry will be assessed through multiply choice. The different types of questions will include, mood, author’s purpose, characterization, theme, comparison, context clues, tone, and analogies. They will have a vocabulary section. Also, they will be given a sentence in which they will use their knowledge of DGP to complete all four days without notes.
The format for the both grades are same. However, the text, text levels, and questions are appropriate to the individual grade level.
