Lions 8-2

M 1/5

T 1/6 History Review Test #5

W 1/7

Th 1/8

F 1/9 History 50 States Map Test, English Vocab Journals due

As English students are finishing up their novels, they can write a bio-poem for their main character as one of the two character analysis options.  Check this link to read them:  Protagonist Bio-Poems.

The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers invited students in grade 7-12 to participate in the Scholastic Writing Awards.  Twenty students nationwide can earn $2500 scholarships to attend summer writing intensive programs.  Writing submission categories include:  dramatic script, general writing portfolio, humor, journalism, nonfiction portfolio, novel, personal essay/memoir, poetry, science fiction/fantasy, short story, and short short story.  Deadline is January 9, 2009.  For more information go to www.artandwriting.org.

Students in Mrs. Brucher’s English class have been studying career clusters. In order to put that knowledge to the test, students read an excerpt from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and watched a video about the McDonald’s corporation. In an in-class essay, students were asked to respond to the following question: How could people from the career cluster you researched work for the McDonald’s corporation? Click here to see some of their responses: McDonald’s Extended Response Essays

We are currently working on Battles of the American Revolution presentations.  Each student and a partner have been assigned a battle.  We will be doing research in the library for the next week.  Presentations will not take place until after Thanksgiving.

There are a lot of you reading The Lightning Thief right now.  If you wish to leave a comment on the book, click on Make a Comment.  Please use a screen name instead of your real name on your comments.

There are so many of you reading Pride and Prejudice right now for English that I thought we could try a blog comment board for the book.  If you wish to add a comment, be sure to include a screen name instead of your real name.

Many of our Lions students participated in IESA speech contest last Friday night at Rockridge Middle School. We had a great showing with 6 of our lions earning Judges’ Choice honors. Great job to everybody who participated this year!

The Geneseo Junior Women’s Club is the local sponsor for the GFWC Youth Poetry and Short Story Contest.

Eligibility: Youth from grades 1st to 12th may enter one poem and/or one short story on the local Club level.

Rules: Short stories are limited to 2,000 words. Poems may be any style with a minimum of 8 lines and a maximum of 50 lines. Your entries cannot have been published before and must be an original work. For complete formatting guidelines, see Mrs. Brucher.

Deadline: February 1, 2009

Prize: I’m not sure yet, but I’ll try to find out.