8th Grade Honors English
Week of September 3 - 13, 2016
Personification: Messages Sing
Eighth Grade Honors English students identified examples of the literary
device, personification, in their class novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Personification
is giving human attributes to non-human objects. Just as Harper Lee described the
tin foil in a tree as winking at Scout, students practiced personification by writing
their own inspirational messages to classmates.
“Her long hair slept on her strong shoulders.”
“His strong glasses rested over his brow.”
“Her shimmering eyes danced in the sunlight.”
Everyone enjoyed receiving a compliment and learning to personify personal
attributes.
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Mouthful of . . . Gum!
This past week, eighth grade Honors English students read about how Boo
Radley left two pieces of Wrigley’s gum for Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout
also found two pennies and a wedding ring box in a knot-hole of the tree. To fully
experience the novel, students passed around a ring box with two pennies and
experienced the joy of Wrigley’s gum. What an exciting day in the life of Scout!
Topics of the Week:
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Chapters 6 & 7
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Musical Selection:
Cause and Effect
Sequence of Events
Descriptive Writing - personification and alliteration
Commas with Antithetical Phrases
High School Placement Test (HSPT) Prizes
o Official Test Date: Sat., Dec. 10, 2016
"Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven
Enrichment Activity:
PBS 50 for 50 Contest
If your child is interested in submitting a letter, then I will gladly help him/her
draft, revise, edit, and submit his/her entry. We definitely have the future leaders
of tomorrow. The entry deadline is Sept. 21, 2016.
Reminders:
Family Mass Celebration
Sunday, Sept. 11th @ 11 a.m.
Wear your Mass uniform, and
earn a Spirit-dress pass for Monday.
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Please work on your HSPT sections over the weekend. Prizes will be awaiting you on
Monday,, Sept. 12th!
Parent/Teacher Conferences and Early Release on Thurs., Sept. 15th and Fri., Sept. 16th
If you are looking to purchase a special Bible for your child, then here is a great site that will
even inscribe it for you.
New American Bible: The Catholic Company
"Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
Corporal Work of Mercy
Give drink to the thirsty.
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave
Me something to drink;” Matthew 24:34-35.
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa was canonized on Sunday by Pope Francis, and will now be known as St. Teresa of
Calcutta. She was the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and was the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize
laureate.