8th grade reading intervention - the last leg

go to :

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/main/reading.html

Click on READING QUESTIONS for any of the people listed (such as Thomas Edison, Sophia Fowler Gallaudett, or Douglas Craig). If you choose the wrong answer, hit the EXPLAIN button to help you understand where you went wrong.

NEXT, scroll down on the main page to "Cloze Reading Practices"

You need to keep score for this one. Answer until you get it correct. Your % will appear in the top, right-hand corner. Do two of these and turn it in to me.

8th Grade Reading Intervention Part II

Go to

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_licklider_vocabulary_1/0,1682,11855-,00.html

Keep score for exercises 1 - 3 on your paper.

Once you record your score, you will have to hit the "back" button a couple of times to get back to the page where you can select Excercise 2 and 3.

Bring this to me when you are finished.

If you have extra time,

Go to
http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=1&act=2&que=1

Follow the instructions on the page. You do not need to keep score of this.

Vocabulary Unit 14 Top Scores

Here are the students who earned an A on this week's quiz:

Bells 3 - 4
Mike Merk
Jessica Wilkins
Adam Graham
Jello
Hayden Morgan
Mason Remillard
Rachel McIntyre
Mitch Hoffman

Bells 5 - 6
Tessa Schalk
Gary Wilder
Ashley Potter
Luke Bowman
Tegan Irwin
Chris Hans

8th Grade Reading Intervention - 2/18 - 3/4

Go to the following link:

http://www.citycol.com/basic_skills/Quizzes/Purpose/purpose1.htm

Read each selection and answer the 3 questons that go with it.

BEFORE GOING ON, RECORD YOUR SCORE FOR EACH "PURPOSE".

There are 9 "Purposes" (sections) in all. Do as many as you can. This is not a race.

TURN YOUR PAPER IN TO MS. VAN SICKLE!!!

Vocab 10 - 12 TEST

After a couple of crazy weeks, we finally got to take the vocabulary test over words from unit 10, 11, and 12. Here are the students who received A's:

Bells 3 & 4
Hayden Morgan
Rachel McIntyre

Bells 5 & 6
Ashley Potter
Chris Hans
Luke Bowman
Tessa Schalk

I LOVE Sharon Draper!!!

We have read two Sharon Draper books in class this year, and students seemed to really get into them. Let that be a starting point for AR! The third book in the Hazelwood High School trilogy is Darkness Before Dawn - FABULOUS!!! Another trilogy by Mrs. Draper includes The Battle of Jericho, November Blues, and a final book that should be on the book store shelves in January. The first to are fabulous, of course, so I'm really looking forward to the last.



For those of you who don't like long books (me included), Double Dutch is a great read. And my final Draper recommendation is Romiette and Julio - a new take on Shakespeare's classic.



Read on!!!

These students earned an A on the Vocabulary Unit 12 Quiz:

Bells 3-4
Natasha Davis
Zach Chase
Jacob Gwinner
Brandon Gober
Mitch Hoffman
Kyle Meyer
Nate Perry

Bells 5-6
Heather Conway
Kyle Weinle
Nick Wolf
Chris Hans
Ashley Potter
Tegan Irwin