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OK, gang. This is going to be another “all-skate” kind of post. You know what I mean, right? Like at the skating rink when everybody gets out and gets moving, both 6th and 8th graders are going to respond on THIS post of mine.
And by the way, GOOD JOB on making sure that you weren’t [...]

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We meet again, 6th Grade!
If you’ve been pacing yourselves, then you should at least have started your second book for this project over the weekend. As a result, we’re going to do a similar assignment this week to the one that kicked off the project. I’m curious as to where you are in the current process [...]

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I’m going to keep this post trimmed down a bit. If you’d like to see some of my other comments, suggestions and general frou-frou, visit the 8th grade post which contains the same assignment…
This week’s topic involves setting. Do you remember what the two components of setting in a literary or dramatic work happen to be? Well, [...]

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Like the 90s alternative rock band The Offspring said, “You gotta keep ‘em separated” (from the super-cool tune “Come Out and Play”).
Of course, I think that The Offspring might have been referring to gang violence, but the phrase still works for my purposes. Just roll with it.
To hopefully cut down on confusion, 6th and 8th graders will [...]

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Well, YOU might not think it’s a party, but I beg to differ.
Today we kick off the LG 6th and 8th Grade Book Projects! Why no 7th, you ask? Well, they’re still kinda swamped with the whole portfolio thing, so they’re plenty busy. That doesn’t mean that 7th graders can’t get some excellent reading suggestions from the [...]

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