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Sorry if this is a duplicate.

I'm moving from teaching 7th grade LA to 8th this fall (I just found out).

I had some great beginning of the year activities for 7th grade, but I don't want to use them for 8th because I'll have some of my students again. Does anyone have a good opening activity that you use? Thanks.
p On 7/28/12, Andrea wrote: > Sorry if this is a duplicate. > > I'm moving from teaching 7th grade LA to 8th this fall (I > just found out). > > I had some great beginning of the year activities for 7th > grade, but I don't want to use them for 8th because I'll > have some of my students again. Does anyone have a good > ope...See More
Jul 31, 2012
Andrea On 7/31/12, p wrote: > On 7/28/12, Andrea wrote: >> Sorry if this is a duplicate. >> >> I'm moving from teaching 7th grade LA to 8th this fall (I >> just found out). >> >> I had some great beginning of the year activities for 7th >> grade, but I don't want to use them for 8th because I'll >> have s...See More
Jul 31, 2012
Sara On 7/31/12, p wrote: > On 7/28/12, Andrea wrote: >> Sorry if this is a duplicate. >> >> I'm moving from teaching 7th grade LA to 8th this fall (I >> just found out). >> >> I had some great beginning of the year activities for 7th >> grade, but I don't want to use them for 8th because I'll >> have s...See More
Jul 31, 2012
Julie Sara - great idea! Would you mind sharing the Faulkner sentence you're referring to? Thanks!

On 7/31/12, Sara wrote: > > I like to begin the year with a 'Two Word Sentence Contest'. > Write an interesting or even intruiging two word sentence. It > gives me the opportunity to say - again - a sentence has a > subject and pred...See More
Aug 2, 2012
Sara On 8/02/12, Julie wrote: > Sara - great idea! Would you mind sharing the Faulkner sentence > you're referring to? Thanks!

If you google it, it will tell you on what page that sentence is in Absalom, Absalom. I could not find the actual sentence on the web. It's 1,287 words long. It's rather a stream of consciousness sentence - it co...See More
Aug 2, 2012


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