January 8, 2008
Today we took the test on Seventh Grade Confusing Words. If you were absent, arrange with Ms. Dorsey to take the test.
We spent more time reviewing sentence parts and parts of speech.
subject, predicate, simple and complete subject and predicate, simple and compound subject and predicate, nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Look for the packets in your class absent envelope if you weren't here.
Ms. Dorsey gave a "Heads-Up" introduction to the types of books you will be reading for the Term 3 Novel Portfolio. Acceptable books include these genres:
Nonfiction/factual
biography
autobiography
literary nonfiction
and
Fiction/Made-Up
Historical fiction (novels)
and
Multicultural fiction (novels)
