Caritas Christi Urget Nos,
Welcome to our Eighth Grade Language Arts Announcements Page!
We are still in the Easter Season, so I'll say,
May the glory of the Risen Christ be with all of you!
First, let me congratulate our emcees at the Talent Show a couple of nights ago. We all agree that they did a sterling job, and are to be commended for their poise in front of the large audience of parents, teachers and students! Kudos to Jessica Harloe, Bella Nguyen, Vanessa Tran, Mikki Aquino, and Cecilia Tran. Congratulations also to our sole performer, Sophie Yu who captured us with her solo.
I much appreciate all of you attending our Student Led Conferences last night. It was wonderful to meet with so many of you and hear such positive comments about your children's performance and their achievements. Thank you. Please remember to complete your Parent Evaluation as it will become a part of your child's portfolio. It will benefit them in that they have a different audience that will be responding to them in addition to teacher evaluations.
Yes, we are winding down the year, but we still have some projects hanging fire. First, we are completing the oral presentation part of our Multi-genre project. A few students have already presented to the class, and the rest are due next week. Sorry, parents--it was difficult to organize things at the Student Led Conference so you could see that part of it as well. You could always ask your child to show you his/her Glogster or PowerPoint presentation at home.
Secondly, students have turned in a few of their multi-genre pieces on edmodo.com for other students in our class to comment on. Most students have fulfilled this requirement and have responded to others' pieces as well. Some still have not. Please ask your child about this as I will be grading that shortly.
Finally, in class, we are learning the difference between persuasion and argumentation. Since we do not have time to complete an entire writing piece on this, we are working on a group project in which students have to amass evidence like CSIs, observe and analyze the data, determine whether or not Queenie is lying and present their arguments in a report. This is a fun project and the students are enthused about pursuing it.
The Jog-a-thon went off without a hitch today, and the students had a blast. They definitely enjoyed the cookies that followed. Thank you to all those parents and friends who spent so much time and effort organizing this enjoyable afternoon for the students.
I'll look forward to seeing you at the Spaghetti Pho dinner tomorrow night.
Please check Gradelink as there are several assignments already on there, and some students have not completed them yet. Since a few students are not finding time to do their work at home, I will be asking those who have work that is delinquent to stay in at recess and lunch and possibly after school to get their work done.
Please contact me through this website if there is something you need to ask me. I will be happy to get back to you via e-mail or schedule a conference if necessary.
God bless you for all of your support to me and to our graduating class,
Caritas Christi Urget Nos
Mrs. Anselmi