2009-2010 School Year begins!

Hey there all you smarties!

So school begins on Tuesday August 25th. There is an assignment already waiting for you, and if you want extra credit you have to bring it to school on Tuesday, so here is where you go to get it...

www.teacherweb.com/ca/wellsmiddleschool-dublin/anderson

Navigate to the Grade 8 materials tab and look for the beginning of the year assignment. You can also take a moment to review the supplies you will need for my classes as well as download the video permission slip, the course outline and anything else that looks like it might be important.

You will find that I update this blog once a week (for the most part) throughout the school year. There will be times when the blog is not updated. If there is no update, then either I am sick, or the students have no extra homework. That said, you can assume that if you student is in Honors, they will have a short weekly practice essay every week as well as a reading log. If your child is in regular English they will have an essay every other week and a reading log.

You will find that I do not assign very many worksheets. In fact, I prefer for my students to be reading and writing above all else. Any grammar or spelluing will be as a part of that process. You will find that students are asked to do several projects throughout the year, alone and in groups. I realize that this can sometimes cause problems. If an assignment is going to be a problem, please have your child let me know. If a change needs to be made in a due date or to an assignment itself, your child needs to come to me and be ready to discuss why they need a change and in the case of asking for a different assignment or a tweak in an assignment to make it more interesting or more applicable to that students' learning needs, what they will be doing instead and why. Whew!

You will also find that students do much of their history work in class.

So, check back to this blog every Friday afternoon, and get onto the website for your first assignment! My class isn't that hard...REALLY!! Instead it's lots of fun and lots of learning :)

Mrs. A