Here is what your students are currently doing as well as a glimpse of what they have to look forward to in the remainder of the third quarter....
7th Bible: As we just finished our unit on the prophets, we have begun a unit on prayer. We are on the sixth unit, and there are only eight in the entire curriculum! These kids are flying through! More importantly, my prayer is that they are drawing nearer to Jesus during our Bible time together. Right now, their Scripture memory work is a four verse passage of their choosing that has to do with prayer. They submitted their individual choices today, and all were approved. Ask your student what part of God's Word he or she is currently memorizing!
7th English: We are currently in the midst of a non-fiction unit which started with learning how to write a formal business letter. Each student wrote to a business of his or her choosing, and we will see if we get any results from our sent letters! We are also on vocabulary lesson 8, and we are continuing in our grammar exercises as well! The students will enjoy reading some non-fiction selections from our literature text in the next two weeks. After this unit is through, we begin our poetry unit where we create our own poems as well as read some classical selections by Poe, Frost, Emmerson, and more.
8th Bible: Church history continues on! We are currently in the 1500s! (Please remember that we began with Pentecost in the book of Acts! Wow!) It is amazing to look through history to see how God has sustained His beautiful body of believers. We look to His Word daily in light of what our founding church fathers have taught. We pray that as we learn, we grow in a deeper understanding of what Scripture has to say about the church. We humbly ask for wisdom and guidance while looking at various beliefs on worship, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and more. I love this class's grace and kindness as well as interest in one another's church backgrounds. From Baptist, to Presbyterian, to Eastern Orthodox, to Anglican, to Evangelical Free, to Methodist, to Lutheran, and more-- the eighth grade is truly a picture of the diversity in The Body of Christ. How interesting it has been to see where each of us has derived our traditions, always seeing God's Word as the foundation of Truth. After these units on church history, we have a unit on "cults" and seeing the results of the church departing from The Scriptures.
8th English: The students did a fantastic job with our recent Shakespeare unit, and they completed wonderful literary essays on their interpretation of the themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Now we are on to a short story unit! We will be reading some classic short stories from our literature text. We are currently on lesson 6 in vocabulary, and we definitely had fun with these words today. We are never short on laughter in the 8th grade. We press on with grammar and will be covering two more units of Shurley Grammar in the next three weeks in the midst of literature, writing, and vocabulary! After our short story unit, we will be writing speeches. Perhaps I will invite parents for the speech presentations? Hmmmm.... I will keep you posted!
THANK YOU for sharing your kids with me. They are doing a wonderful job. There are a few students who may be losing some gusto in this third quarter. Please make sure to check PowerSchool occasionally, and we will work together to hold your student accountable. Let's shoot for NO missing assignments this quarter! :)
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