September 17, 2020
7A & 7B: You will have the quiz on the 8 types of nouns (understand the meaning of each type) and the spellig rules for changing singular nouns to plural nouns.
8A & 8B: Finish the simple, compound, complex, compound complex packet. There will be a quick quiz on the elements of each sentence type. 

September 16, 2020
7A  & 7B: The quiz on the 8 types of nouns and the spelling rules will be Friday. Complete p 4 of your VIE wkbk.
8A & 8B: Have VIE text/wk and vocabulary book in class tomorrow. 
September 15, 2020
7A: prepare for a quiz on the 8 types of nouns and on the 5 spelling rules discussed in class. Use your notes to prepare.
7B: Be sure to have your VIE textbook, workbook, notebook and vocabulary book with you tomorrow.
8B: Be prepared for your summer reading assessment for tomorrow.
8A: For our next meeting, have you VIE Tx/Wk, notebook, and vocabulary book

September 14, 2020
7A & 7B Complete p., 3 of Voyages in English wkbk. Have your adult sign your homework. Have a good night. 
8A: Be prepared for your summer reading essay assessment for tomorrow. Remember to review the uses of semicolons in compound sentences as well as with adverbial clauses. Have a great night. 


March 17, 2020
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Le slainte mhaith
Please check in on Google Classroom for today's assignment. 

3.11.20
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 48. Have test signed. Bring in completed storyboard tomorrow. 
8A & 8B: Unit 4 verb test. Prepare!

3/10/20
7A & 7B: Continue to work on your storyboard which is due Thursday.
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk pp 43 & 44. Continue to review for Thursday's test.

3/9/20
7A & 7B: Part 2 of the verb assessment will be next week on March 17 or 18. Complete p 44 of VIE according to directives given in class. Have signed. Continue to work on your story board boxes. You will have until the conclusion of class on Thursday to complete this assignment. 
8A & 8B: You will have your verb assessment  on Thursday, 3/12/20

3.4.20
8A & 8B: Continue to read chapter reviews for TKAM. Prepare for Tuesday's test. 
8B: VIE wkbk p. 50
7A & 7B: Prepare for 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, and 4.9 test.
https://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Active-Passive-Voice.html
3.3.20
Any student who did not have their poster board today must complete it at home this evening and bring it to class tomorrow. 
Continue to review for your test on lessons 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9 which will be either Thursday or Friday.
7B: Your Lenten essay is due on Friday, March 6.
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk. pp 41 & 42. Your unit 4 test will be Tuesday, March 10. Be sure to continually prepare.
Continue to read chapter reviews and analyses of TKAM.

3/2/20
7A & 7B: Be sure to have your poster board in class tomorrow for the story board.
Continue to review for your test on lessons 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9 which will be either Thursday or Friday.
7B: Your Lenten essay is due on Friday, March 6.
8A & 8B: Your unit 4 test will be Tuesday, March 10. Be sure to continually prepare.
Continue to read chapter reviews and analyses of TKAM.


February
2.27.20
7A & 7B: Complete p 51 of VIE with the correct modal auxiliary information.  Bring in your outside reading book. 
7A: Complete Lenten Essay. 
8A & 8B: Continue to read chapter summaries and analyses.
This Sunday, March 1 is the East Islip St. Patrick's Day Parade. Any student wishing to march should be at the East Islip library at 1:15 wearing school uniform with green accessories. 
2.25.20
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. All are invited to the Ash Wednesday Prayer Service at 8:30Am in the school auditorium. There is a 12 noon dismissal tomorrow. Thursday is a special dress down day for a special family in our school community. Thank you for always being so generous. 

7A &7B: Complete VIE wkbk p 51 as instructed. There will be a unit test on verbs on Thursday or Friday, March 5 or 6. Continue to prepare now. Know your prepositions.

8A & 8B: Review TKAM chapters by reading chapter summaries on line.
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2.24.20
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk pg. 41 (all) and pg. 712 (1-15 only).

2.12.20
7A: You are permitted to bring in treats for a St. Valentine's Day celebration. $2.00 dress down day.
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 43. Have signed. 
8B: Make corrections to vocabulary essay. Have original signed. Bring in both original and new copy. 

February 11, 2020
7A & 7B: VIE p 42. Have signed.
8A: p. 42 VIE
8B: VIE pp 42 & 46

February 10, 2020
7A & 7B: Have outside letter signed. Bring it to school tomorrow. All books are due on or before this Friday, February 14th. Finish rough draft of newspaper article (vocab. chp. 6, p. 69).  Have signed.
8A: VIE wkbk p. 45.

February 6, 2020

8B: See reference to writing assignment. It is due in class tomorrow. There will be no printing out during class, so you should be sure to have it with you when you arrive for class.

February 5, 2020
7A & 7B: VIE wkbk p. 45. Have signed.
8A: Vocabulary challenge writing assignment (chp. 6, p. 69) is due tomorrow, one-page typed, 12 font, 1.0, 1.15, or 1.5 spacing. Must include simple, compound (joined three different ways), complex (with dependent clause beginning and ending the sentence), and compound-complex. No spelling, capitalization, puncution, or grammatical errors are acceptable. Check google classroom for additional information.
8B: The above assignment for you is due Friday. 
February 3: 7A & 7B Complete vocabulary chp. 6 (do not complete the writing selection on p. 69). Have signed.
7A Religion: Finish questions for Love Thy Neighbor essay. 
8A: Complete pp 62, 63, 64, 66, and 67 of vocabulary chp. 6

January
January 29:
7A & 7B: Read chps 12 & 13 of Lyddie. Have planner signed.

It's Catholic Schools Week! We celebrate our awesome school as well as all Catholic schools.
7A & 7B: Continue to bring in coloring books and crayons. The Dollar Store is a great resources. 
Read Lyddie Chapters 8 & 9 for homework. Have planner signed. 
Tomorrow you are invited to wear tie-dye shirts for dress down day. 

1/22/20
8A & 8B: Tomorrow after class you will submit your "If You Give a Kid.."
7A & 7B: Conjunction worksheet and sentences on looseleaf are due tomorrow. 
1/21/20
8A & 8B:
Booklets are due completed at the close of class on Thursday. 
7A only: Have sentence packet signed. Make corrections on looseleaf.
7A & 7B: Conjunction hand out is due completed with sentences on Thursday.
7A & 7B: For our service project during Catholic Schools Week, please bring in a bag of candy. We will be making goodie bags for nursing home residents. 
1/16/20
7A & 7B Complete VIE textbook pp. 160-161 in your notebook. Have signed.
7A Religion: Complete brochure for Open House
8A & 8B: Complete sentence packet for tomorrow.

1/15/2020
7A: No homework
7B: Complete the conjunction worksheet. Create 4 columns and identify each of the conjunctions as one.
8A & 8B: Be sure to have your prompts done as well as be sure to reread TKAM chps.
1/13/2020
7A & 7B: Your rough draft WILL BE COLLECTED TOMORROW.  We have gone over a number of the essays, so think about how to improve your sentences. 
8A: Complete the 2-3 prompts you copied into your notebook. 

1.9.2020
7A & 7B: We will continue the quize started in class today. Complete p 100 of VIE wkbk. Have signed. Read Chp. 5 of Lyddie.
8A: Finish p. 106 of VIE wkbk. Finish Chp. 3 of TKAM
8B: Complete p. 111 of VIE wkbk. Reread Chp. 3 TKAM

1.8.20
7A & 7B: Complete p. 107 of VIE wkbk. Have signed. Prepare for a quiz tomorrow on complex sentences, independent and dependent clauses, phrases, compound sentences. Edit essay. 
8B: Complete VIE wkbk. p 106. 

1/7/2020
7A & 7B: edit essay. Complete wkbk p 106. Have signed.
8A & 8B: Reread TKMB up to chapter 3
1/6/2020
7A & 7B: Rough draft 4 paragraph essay on resolutions. Be sure your rough draft has at lease adverbial conjunctions set up the proper way and a few complex sentences beginning with subordinate conjunctions. As well, be sure your rough draft is a good rough draft. Your responsibility is to have proper sentence structure, proper capitalization, punctuation, spelling... You get the idea.
8A: Reread pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. Have questions.


12/18/19
7B: Complete T'was the Night Before Christmas with requirements: [prep. phr], circle SP ands OP, circle all articles and draw arrow to modified noun
12.17.19
8A & 8B: VIE wkbk p 134 in pencil
7A: VIE wkbk pp 17 & 18. Have signed.
7B: Your essays must be specific with details to "show" what/how gift you are giving God. Details!!!
VIE wkbk p 17. Have signed.


12.16.19
7A & 7B:
Work on essay. 7A will submit it tomorrow. 7B will continue to work on it for discussion tomorrow.
VIE textbook pp 20, 21 Ex. 1 & 2

12.12.19
7A & 7B: Have pronoun test signed; have test corrections signed.  Be prepared for a quick quiz on the 4 locations of adjectives. You do not have to read chapter 5 of Lyddie. 
7A: Religion: Write a 3 paragraph essay explaining what you will give God for Christmas. Be sure to explain how you will do this.
8A & 8B: Quiz on adjectives, lesson 2.1

12.11.19
7A & 7B: Read chp. 4 of Lyddie; have your planner signed. Complete p. 15 of VIE wkbk. Have signed. Expect a quick quiz on Lyddie and/or location of adjectives.
8B: Have BOTH test on corrections signed. Finish the remainder of VIE p. 14.

12.10.19
It was so wonderful to meet so many of you at assessment conferences. Thank you for all you do.
7A & 7B: Quiz on Lyddie chps 1 & 2
8A & 8B: VIE workbook p. 13, #1-22 and p. 14, #11-10.
Tomorrow is Ugly Sweater Day. Bring in two non-perishable food items.
2.5.19
7A: Complete subject complement worksheet
7B: Complete parts of speech coloring page

12.3.19
7A & 7B: Prepare for your unit 3 test for tomorrow. Review all lesssons.
7A Religion: Religion test must be signed and corrections made for tomorrow. All students who did not score a 4 or 5 will retake the test; however, the score remains the same.
8A & 8B: Unit 3 test on Thursday. 

12.2.19
7A & 7B: Unit 3: Pronoun test on Wednesday. Complete pp 54 & 55 of VIE textbook in preparation. 
8A & 8B: Unit 3: Pronoun test on Thursday. Complete pp 54 & 55 of VIE textbook in preparation. 
7A Relgion: If you need to retake the Liturgy of the Word test, prepare. It will be either Thursday or Friday, time permitting. 
Tomorrow is picture retake day. If you are having your picture retaken, be sure to return the original pictures. If you were not here for the original picture day, you may have your picture taken tomorrow. All students must have a picture for ID badges. 

7A: prepare for religion test on Liturgy of the Word.
7A  & 7B: prepare for unit 3: pronoun test on 12/4/19.
8A & 8B:
If you did not submit your literary analysis to me today, it is due tomorrow as explained in class today. If you will not be in school tomorrow, it must be shared with me. It will not be accepted after tomorrow.
Prepare for unit 3 pronoun test on Thursday, Dec. 5.

11.25.19
Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving Feast. If you are not participating in the lunch, be sure to bring lunch from home. No other lunch will be available. 
7A & 7B: Begin studying for your unit 3: pronoun test on Wednesday, December 4th
Complete VIE wkbk p 28. Have signed.
8A & 8B: You will have a unit test on pronouns Lessons 3.1 - 3.11 on Thursday, December 5th. This is the first test of the new trimester. Prepare now. Complete VIE wkbk pp 28 & 29. 
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.