The Home Stretch! :)

Can you believe that it is May already?  I find myself reviewing all the things my students have learned this year, anticipating the materials we have yet to cover, and looking for areas where they can use some extra reinforcement!  This next month of school is going to fly by!

Here is what is on the agenda in my classes as we close out the year:

English 7: 
*Booksellers Day!  The students will be reading one more novel of their choosing (approved by me).  They will have to "sell" their novel to their classmates in an exciting book report.  They will also be writing critiques on the novels.
*The last grammar unit!  We have one more unit in grammar to cover, and it is a review of all we learned this year.
*The last vocabulary unit!  We have one more vocabulary unit left!

English 8:
*Persuasive Logic Speeches!  Students will be writing speeches in support of or against a provided topic.  Students will not be able to use any of the fallacies they learned in logic to convince the audience (along with Mr. Jensema and myself) to agree with their speech.
*Last writing unit: firming the foundation!
*We will be covering two more vocabulary units!
*Grammar overview!  We will be reviewing all we have learning in grammar to prepare for high school.


Bible 7:
*One unit left on Biblical Literary Forms in God's word!

Bible 8:
*We just finished our last unit!
*The students will present their church reports next week.
*Now we will be doing a Bible study together to complete our middle school years and spiritually prepare for what God has in store for these upcoming high schoolers!

Please enjoy this photo of an impromptu Bible skit showing how the Jewish sect, the Zealots, reacted to the pressures of Hellenism in Ancient Greece.  (Maybe you had to be there...)

A citizen of Greece (Annika) in 230BC takes cover as the Jewish Zealots (Lucie, Haley, and Mekka) revolt against her Hellenistic pressures!