8F, 8M, 8R- Read for 30 minutes and record. Bring in an example of a sentence containing a comma. 8R- Social Studies  Choose a news story and be prepared to report on it during tomorrow's class. Write down the topic of the news item and where you heard it (internet, radio, TV newscast).  Answer the main questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? There are still a few students who didn't comment on their classmates' blogs!!

Reminder to everyone: wear blue tomorrow to support our anti-bullying campaign. All classes need to submit their Common Comma Omissions sheet.  You need to find one example of each rule.  That’s five examples in all.  See yesterday’s post about when your reading letter is due. 8M, yours is due tomorrow.  Type it up and submit on line or bring it in on a thumb drive. You can email it to me as a third option.  Check out staff on our website for details.Don't worry about the weather. You can dance the night away on Tuesday! :)

Reminder to all students to sell their tickets. Draw is on Friday.We attended a very moving ceremony at NBCC about Violence Against Women.  Some of our students read names ofwomen who were killed in N.B. We also had a candle lighting ceremony and minute of silence. 8F-  Read 30 minutes and record.  Check your blog to make sure it was posted.  If not, read the teacher comments and resubmit.8M-  Read 30 minutes and record. Check your blog to make sure it was posted.  If not, read the teacher comments and resubmit.8R- If you didn't comment on two blogs, then do so at home. The comments should be a few lines.  Talk about what youlike about the entry and  be specific.   If you can't find your original reading letter, then do it again.  8F and 8M will be in the lab tomorrow.  

Students received their marked log books if parents want to take a peek at it. Students also received their grammar quizzes and weekly homework which is due on Friday.  Those who did poorly on the quiz have extra practice sheets on the areas of difficulty.   The other students are enriching their vocabulary. 8F- Read and record. Work on your Remembrance Day story.  Bring a memory stick to school so you can type at school and work on it at home.   When you pass in your Remembrance Day story on Thursday, you need to pass in both the draft copy and a typed good copy.  You are in the computer lab tomorrow. 8M & 8R-Read and record. Work on your Remembrance Day story.  You can start it at home, save it on a memory stick, and bring it to school.  We will peer conference tomorrow, so don’t forget your story! J 8M and 8R will have time in the computer lab on Wednesday. Remembrance Day Story will be marked for the following: 1) ideas- Can the reader see it? Hear it? Feel it?                                                                                             2) strong verbs- evidence of revising your first verbs to specific, interesting verbs(“Sour Patch Kids”)   3) organization- Do you have a good hook, a satisfying conclusion, logical order, and paragraphs? 4) transition words- Have you added in transition words? (approx. 1-2 a paragraph) 5) sentence fluency- Do you have varied beginnings? Do you have different types of sentences -questions and exclamatory? 6) Conventions- proper punctuation, capitals, apostrophes, spelling