Welcome November
11.21.19
7A: No ELA hw. Continue to study for Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist test.
7B: Complete the written portion of VIE wkbk p. 30
8A: VIE wkbk p 33
8B: VIE workbook p 32 & 33

11/19/19
7A & 7B: VIE workbook p 31. Have signed.
8A & 8B: VIE workbook p 31. Be sure to bring in outside reading book so that you can continue to work on literary analysis.
11/18/19
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 30. For all reflexive pronouns, provide function of pronoun. Have signed. 
Tomorrow, November 19, is the last day to order the Thanksgiving day feast lunch. Please order on MySchoolBucks. 
No other lunch will be provided. If a student is not participating in the feast, lunch from home must be provided. Thank you. 
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk p. 30. For all reflexive pronous, provide function of pronoun.

11/14/19
7A & 7B: If you did not finish Annabell Lee prepositional phrases, do so for homework and submit tomorrow.
8A & 8B: Continue to work on your literary analysis. The first and second paragraphs should be completed and your next paragraph should be worked on for class.
11/12/19
7A & 7B:
Subject and Object pronoun and their functions quiz; know all prepositions for quiz.
8A & 8B: Introduction and 1st supporting paragraph for literary analysis for tomorrow IN NOTEBOOK.
Tomorrow is the last day to bring in food items for community service credit. Thank you. 
11/7/19
8A & 8B: VIE Txbook, pp 38 & 39, Ex. 1, 2, 3.
Finish Courageous Missionary essay if not finished in class. 
7A & 7B
Wear red, white, blue accessories to your uniform in honor of our Veterans celebration. 
Don't forget your state t-shirt. 
If you need to take subj/obj pronoun retake, it will tomorrow at lunch. Continue to review subj/obj pronouns as well as A, B, D, E, and F prepositions.

11/5/19
Congratulations to all our new confirmed students.
7A & 7B: VIE pp 25, 26, & 27. Have signed. Study Sub./Obj pronouns and A, B, D, E, F prepostions
8A & 8B: VIE pp 24, 25, & 26
A reminder that tomorrow is the field trip to Holy Trinity. You must bring lunch from home.
 
10/31/19
Happy Halloween!
7A & 7B: Have all quizzes signed. Memorize the "B" prepositions for a quiz on both A & B prepositions on Tuesday. All Veteran hats, gloves, scarves are due to school on Tuesday.
8A & 8B: All Courageous Missionary essays are due tomorrow, 11/1/19. Continue to read your book, which is to be completed by next Thursday. 

10/29/19
7A & 7B: Vocabulary pp 46 & 47. Have signed.
You will have a quick quiz tomorrow on subject and object pronouns and usage of such. Know gender, number, and person.
8A & 8B: Continue to work on Courageous Missionary and submit any from Wed., 10/30 to Fri., 11/1

10/28/19
8A & 8B: Courageous Missionary essays will be collected Wednesday and Thursday, 10/30 & 10/31. 
There will be a quiz on subject and object pronouns, either uses and gender and number.
7B: Vocabulary pp 42, 43, & 44. Have page 44 signed. For those students who were given back their world hunger essay, all corrections to the essay are due tomorrow.

10/ 23/ 2019
8A & 8B: Continue to read your historical novel. Final copy of Courageous Missionary essay is 10/30/19.
7A & 7B: Final copy of vocabulary challenge is due tomorrow. Be sure to have a combination of simple, compound, and complex sentences. Be sure to also use a semicolon at least once. Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation are your responsibility.

10/22/19:
8A & 8B: Read your outside historical novel book. I will give you the guidelines at the end of the week.
Your Courageous Missionary essay is due Friday, October 25. 
World Hunger essays are due October 30. 

7A & 7B: Your vocabulary challenge writing assignment will be due at the conclusion of tomorrow's class, so be sure to continue working on it. Remember that you must include context clues for each challenge word. 

10/21/19
8A & 8B: Your outside historical novel is due into school tomorrow. The assignment is considered late if the book is not with you. 8B students who showed the book to me today still must bring it in tomorrow. Thank you.
Prepare for your chps. 1, 2, & 3 vocab test for tomrorow. 
7A & 7B: Prepare for chps. 1, 2, & 3 vocabulary test tomorrow. Continue to work on the writing selection as well. 
World Hunger essay due on Friday, October 25. 

10/16/19
8A & 8B: Return bottom portion of outside reading letter tomorrow.
Bracket all prepositional phrases in The Great Chicago Fire poem.
Prepare for vocabulary test on Chps 1, 2, & 3 in VIA scheduled for Tuesday, 10/22/19.
Bring in outside reading book by Tuesday, 10/22/19. See letter given to you today in class. 

7A & 7B: VIA pp 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 (have signed), and 35 (#1-5)
Prepare for vocab test on Tuesday, 10/22/19 on chps 1, 2, & 3.

10/15/19
8A & 8B: Return bottom portion of outside reading letter tomorrow.
Bracket all prepositional phrases in The Great Chicago Fire poem.
Prepare for vocabulary test on Chps 1, 2, & 3 in VIA scheduled for Tuesday, 10/22/19.
Bring in outside reading book by Tuesday, 10/22/19. See letter given to you today in class. 

7A: Finish parts of speech coloring page
7A & 7B: There will be a vocabulary test on chapters 1, 2, & 3 next Tuesday, 10/22/19.
Have both test and test corrections signed and returned tomorrow. 
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10/10/19
7A & 7B: VIA pp 18, 19, & 20. Have signed.
7A Religion: Good copy of "I Remember" on paper given to you.
8A: Test and test corrections signed and returned tomorrow, 10/11/19.
8A & 8B: Work on Maryknoll essay. 
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7A & 7B: Complete p. 11 of VIE. Have signed. Unit 1: lessons 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 test tomrrow.
8B: Have test and test corrections signed. 

10/8/19
7A & 7B: The test will be on Thursday, 10/10/19. Continue to review and prepare. Complete pp 79 & 83 of VIE workbook. Have signed. Thank you.
8A & 8B: Complete chapter 2 of VIA

10/7/19
7A & 7B: Finish practice test up to #33. Have signed. Continue to review for test.
8A & 8B: Continue to review for tomorrow's test.

10/3/19:
7A & 7B: VIE textbook p 125, Ex. 1 & 2 in notebook. Have signed. Only write the prepostional phrases. Do not write the entire sentence: [on the roof]. Bracket the prepositional phrase, underline the preposition, circle the object of the preposition.
8A & 8B: The test on nouns will be Tuesday. Prepare.
10/2/19:
7A & 7B Use Google classroom to access Quizizz homework assignment on direct objects and indirect objects. Be sure to print out and have signed. If you haven't brought in a picture of your pet/favorite animal, please do so for tomorrow. 

10/1/19:
7A & 7B: Make corrections to VIE wkbk pp 7 & 8 on loose leaf paper as explained. Have loose leaf paper signed. Continue to review for Tuesday's test.
8A & 8B: Continue to prepare for your noun test on Thursday.

September 30, 2019 * 7A is in need of a second class parent. If you are able to help us out with being a class parent, kindly send an email to me at mdonohue5607@saintmaryschoolei.org. THANK YOU SO MUCH!*
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 7, #1-10; p. 8 #4, 5, 7 & 8
Memorize object pronouns: me, him, her, them, us, it, you, you
Continue to prepare for your test on nouns scheduled for Tuesday, October 8.
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8A: Continue to prepare for your test on nouns scheduled for this Thursday, October 3. Complete pp 7 & 8 in VIE entirely.
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September 26, 2019
7A & 7B: There was no written homework assigned; however, practice subject pronouns and their uses.
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk p 7 #1-8
8A ONLY: VIE wkbk p 6.
Begin to prepare for next Thursday's test on nouns.

September 25, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete all  pages of chapter 1 of vocabulary book. Do not complete the vocabulary challenge writing assignment. Have signed.
Prepare for a quick quiz on subject pronouns and their functions.

September 24, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete p. 26 in VIE workbook. Have signed. There will be a quick quiz tomorrow on material covered today: subject pronouns as the subjects of sentences, subject pronouns following linking verbs as subject complements.
Please print and review new notes found on Google classroom. Adhere to your notebook.
8A & 8B: Print out new google classroom notes and adhere to notebook. 

September 23, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete VIA pp 8, 9, 10, 11, & 14. Most are already completed. Have signed.  Have entrance ticket signed and returned.

8A: Complete VIA pp 8, 9, 10, & 14. Have entrance ticket signed and returned. If you have not returned your original summer reading assessment signed, please do so tomorrow. 

September 19, 2019
7A & 7B: Print out Google classroom notes and adhere to notebook. Be sure to review notes; they will be used for an entrance ticket.

8A:
Complete p. 5 of VIE wkbk.
Exercises 1, 2, & 3 in VIE lesson 1.3 should be completed if not done so in class. Print out Google Classroom notes and adhere to notebook. Be sure functions of Nouns flap book and sentence pattern are in notebook. 
8B: 
Print out Google Classroom notes and adhere to notebook. Be sure functions of Nouns flap book and sentence pattern are adhered to notebook. 

September 18, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete VIE wkbk p. 6 all exercises. For exercise one, also circle the LV if there is one. Have signed.
8A & 8B: Complete VIE wkbk p. 6 all exercises. Be sure to have functions of nouns flap book glued into your notebook. 

September 17, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete the "Functions of Nouns" coloring page.

8A & 8B: Complete any typed redos. Complete "Functions of Nouns" worksheet. Glue into notebook.

September 16, 2019
7A & 7B: Complete all unfinished rules, exercises from Lessons 1.1  and 1.2.
Also finish lessons 1.1 and 1.2 on p. 14 of your VIE textbook. 
Here are your challenge words, which are to catagorize as singular or plural. If it's singular, write the plural; if it's plural, write the singular. Don't guess. Check.
thesis, analysis, alumnus, crisis, strata, oases, larva, antenna, cactus, datum, media. Tomorrow there will be a notebook check as discussed in class. 
8A: Bring your colored pencils to class tomorrow. Finish all lesson 1.1 and 1.2 work including p. 14, 1.1 and 1.2. Notebook check
8B: Bring your colored pencils to class tomorrow. 

September 12, 2019
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk pp  3  & 4
7A  & 7B: VIE wkbk p 5. Have signed.
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September 11, 2019: We Remember
8B: complete VIE wkbk p. 4. Apply spelling rule.

7A & 7B: I understand that many of you did not complete the summer reading assessment. Additional time will be given to you.

September 10, 2019
7A & 7B: Continue to prepare for your summer reading assessment which will be tomorrow. You may use the two books but you may not have any prepared written work.
8A & 8B: No homework

September 9, 2019
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 4. Complete in pencil and have signed. Remember that you will take the summer reading assessment on Wednesday, Sept. 11. 

8A & 8B: Students will take the summer reading assessment on Tuesday, September 10th. We discussed in class the format of the assessment. Students will be permitted to bring in the two summer reading books for reference; however, they may not bring in any prepared notes or essay.