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Recent ActivitySection Announcements  MARCHWe will be reading excerpts from Out of the Dust, a story about the Great Depression told in poems. We will also study poetry terms.
 FEBRUARYWe will be reading about the Great Depression and working with perfect tenses and cause and effect.
 JANUARYJanuary is the end of the first grading period for the second trimester. We will finish our study of Human Rights with Immigration. We will learn about simple, compound and complex sentences and continue vocabulary work.
HUMAN RIGHTSWe have studied heroes of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights movement. We will continue to look at information about events in US history that have denied certain groups their rights. Please take a look at the Civil Rights power point the students created in the class files.
 AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE CLUBA Special Thank You to the Students in the Sign Language Club for finding the ASL websites. The ASL club will meet every Wednesday from 2:00 to 3:00. Learn basic signs and play games. Check out some links in the ASL links section.
 DECEMBERWe will be working on sentence patterns. We will be reading Melba's Choice, a Civil Rights Movement story. We will also write a summary for our portfolio.
 NOVEMBERIn November, we are exploring verb tenses. We will continue to review subject and predicate. We will read Passage to Freedom, a Holocaust story, and watch Heroes of the Holocaust.
 OCTOBERWe will be focusing on subject, predicate and prepositional phrases for grammar. We will be working with homophones, homographs and multiple meaning words for vocabulary. We will read The Road Not Taken and Aimee Mullins for literature. We will begin narrative for writing.
 SCRAPBOOK CLUB The Scrapbook Club will meet once a month. You must have your parent sign the form before you can attend. September 21 will be an informational meeting in room 412 from 2:00 to 2:15. After that, we will tentatively meet from 2:00 to 2:45 on October 5, November 2, December 7, January 11, February 1, March 1, March 29 and May 3.
 EXITING ELDStudents are tested every September to measure their language growth. The results are usually available in January. In order to be considered fluent in English, a student must meet three criteria. First, the student must score Early Advanced or Advance on the CELDT test. Second, the student must score Proficient or Advanced on the CST tests, given in May. Third, the student must maintain at least a C in all core classes. The CELDt test is important in measuring English fluency, but it will not be a part of the classroom grade.
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