May 1st – 9th



Dates:

May 5- 15: Japanese Exchange
May 6: Top 50 go to UPS!
May 8: SMS home track meet @ PAHS
May 13: Science/Arts Night in SMS library


Language Arts (Mills, Hendry, Sanders)

SAIL
• Literature Circles (Infer/Predict, Connections, Historical significance, etc.)
• Independent Projects (SNN, Journalism, Poetry)
• Independent Reading Points -50 by June 15th!

8th Grade

Reading:

• Lit. Circles (Infer/Predict, Connections, Author’s Purpose, Historical significance, etc)
• Independent book projects (traditional, PowerPoint, etc.).

Writing:

• “I am from…” Poems
• Persuasive Writing Technique
• Discovering personal “voice” and “style” via Op-Ed, Slice of Life mentor text


Math (Knowles & Devlin)

Please see schoolnotes.com for assignment information for Math and Algebra. I have encouraged the students to visit this website and e-mail me from my page for extra credit!

Does your child have his/her math book covered? The books are new and need to be covered to protect them. Thanks.



Please add us to your address book:

Holly Clark Brooke Hendry
Science Language Arts
hclark@portangelesschools.org bhendry@portangelesschools.org

Michelle Devlin Laura Knowles
Math Math
Mdevlin@portangelesschools.org lknowles@portangelesschools.org

Derek Drube Darren Mills
Science Language Arts
ddrube@portangelesschools.org dmills@portangelesschools.org

Hillary Fluke Kathy O’Connor
Specialist Para-educator
hfluke@portangelesschools.org koconnor@portangelesschools.org

Stacey Sanders
Foreign Language/Language Arts
ssanders@portangelesschools.org