Parent Information           

    Thanks for taking the time to review these notes with your son/daughter.  Please refer to your son/daughter’s “Agenda Book” frequently to review homework assignments and upcoming projects.  You can also check the calendar here in my web pages.

   

 Once each quarter, students will bring home a progress report showing the assignments we have completed and their scores.  We will be keeping a portfolio in class for their major assignments (they bring the portfolio home at the end of the year). Please come in to view the portfolio whenever you can!  You may also view student grades at any time using the SMS Pass System.

           

     For Accelerated Reading this year, students will need to read and test on two fiction and two non-fiction books each quarter, give brief “book talks” occasionally, and participate in other AR novel assignments.  (A book of 10 or more points counts as two books.)  Students will set reading point goals based on their own reading level.

                             

     There are four main themes we will be covering in the eighth grade, one theme for each quarter.  Each quarter we will read a class novel which relates to that theme.  This year our themes are: Coming to America (True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle/Lord Kirkle's Money), Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush (Call of the Wild/Other Northwest Novels), the Civil War and Slavery (Nightjohn), and World War II (Diary of Anne Frank/Eleanor's Story). We’ll develop writing, reading, speaking and listening projects around these themes to practice and improve their skills.

 

Please come in to visit us whenever you are able. Please contact me whenever you need information using the email address below.

I hope you have a great year!

Missi Baker

                   

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09/01/2011

Melissa L. Baker,  Sandpoint Middle School, 310 S. Division, Sandpoint, ID  83864

Contact me at melissa.baker@lposd.org