This school year is off to a fast start. Already we a juggling multiple assignments from English, science, social studies and math. We have been feverishly reviewing strategies for reading expository text and discussing ways to improve our writing. We’ve already had several assessments in math. As we review our daily assignments, we are working [...]

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Remember when you were little and you had a favorite picture book that you asked everyone – mom, dad, grandparents – to read to you? How many times was that book read to you? I bet I have read To Kill a Mockingbird that many times.
I began to re-read TKAM again last week, and as [...]

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Within the next few weeks, 8th graders will begin a blog for readers. They will launch it with To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Please check back to this site for links.

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I recently passed a book entitled The Uncommon Reader on to Mrs. Kline, with the understanding that she will pass it on to Mrs. Paprocki, who will pass it on to Mrs. Pagakis. After that, we’ll decide where it goes next. It’s not a book I’d recommend for students, only because the allusions would be [...]

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