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Greetings fellow TPS’ers!! This is Libby reporting for Mrs. Ives' Friday class! This past month we’ve been keeping quite busy! After finishing up our Anne of Green Gables study (or "AOGG study," as we say in class), section five participants have been fervently reading The Miracle Worker play (by William Gibson) and completing companion study guides. Other homework assignments have included personal choice fiction pieces, cause/effect essays (based on AOGG events), definition essays, and our upcoming poetry study.

 

Although AOGG wasn’t considered the favorite book among some of the students, the study went extremely well; the cause/effect papers had many catchy themes, including, The Causes of Anne Attempting To Walk the Ridgepole, and The Effects Anne had on Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.  The Miracle Worker study was met with much more anticipation than AOGG (see quote by Patrick below), and English 8 enjoyed a few “digging deeper” discussions about symbolism and character traits. Our class went all out in the fiction assignment. Everyone came up with fantastic stories like a memorable mermaid fantasy story by GinaK, and a thrilling science fiction account by PatrickM2. Everyone has rather mixed thoughts on the upcoming poetry study, but all in all, everyone is enjoying it so far.

           

Recently in grammar, our section has had a couple vocabulary tests with words from out AOGG study. Some of our assignments among others include adverbs and conjunction studies.  

 

Over all, our class has gone wonderfully, thus far! Although Mrs. Ives had some internet trouble one class, everyone has been great; the lessons have gone smoothly, and there’s been tons of good discussion. Mrs. Ives has done a stupendous job!

 

Student Quotes: See what the rest of the class has to say about

English 8,section 5!

 

Anna-MariaR - “Class is a blast! Mrs. Ives makes reading fun!”

 

SummerS - “I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Anne of Green Gables and The Miracle Worker, as well as learning more about various styles of writing this school year. Getting to know some of my classmates through conference partnering has been an added positive experience, too.”

 

CaraBethA - “I love all of the assignments we’ve had so far, Mrs. Ives is a great teacher!”

 

JordanS - “Class is an enjoyable experience where I am learning something that I really didn’t like before.”

 

DrewM - “Class really helped with my writing”

 

HollyH - “I’ve learned so much! Our teacher, Mrs. Ives, makes everything so exciting!”

 

ClaireC -“I like it! I’m looking forward to our poetry study!”

 

RebeccaA - “Mrs. Ives’ class is a great treat to attend and she always makes class a pleasant experience. It has a great challenge to meet the standards for English 8, but it is well worth the knowledge acquired in the process of writing. Through Mrs. Ives’ teaching and the opinions of my wonderful classmates, I have been able to receive a greater appreciation for writing and become a better writer.”

 

LibbyR - “Class is awesome! I absolutely love it!! Three cheers for a fantastic teacher and great classmates! You all are  wonderful!!”

 

PatickM2 also said that he loved The Miracle Worker and would pound all who did not like it.

 

 

 

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