June 8-12:
LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!  You are now practically 8th graders!  We are finishing up The Boy in the Striped Pajamas this week and sharing our ROADTRIPS!

June 1-5: 

We will continue reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. We will finish it by the end of the year. Also, we will finish and share our roadtrip projects.

May 25-29:
off Monday
Live meeting on Tuesday at 1:20 to share allegories
Continue working on Road Trip project
Friday-virtual "field trip"

Week of May 18-22:
We will be starting a research project this week that will go until June 8-I will see you LIVE on Monday afternoon to go over the project-please do not miss this important class. If parents want to listen in, they are welcome so I can answer any questions. In addition, very importantly, I will be handing out The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on Tuesday morning from 9-11am at Sacred Heart.  We will finish up our school year reading this novel, so please plan to stop by and pick it up.

Week of May 11-15:
I know, I know-where did May 4-8 go!? Dates are crazy in quarantine! I miss you guys!  This week we will continue our study of the Holocaust with Martin Neimoller's quote, "Then they came for me..." and a reading of Eve Bunting's allegory Terrible Things.  I am hoping to schedule a pick up for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas sometime next week-I'd like to read this beginning after the 5 day weekend at the end of this month. I am also researching topics for you to do a research project and will get back to you with that as soon as I know what we're doing. Continue working on your book report, due this Thursday.

Week of April 27-May 1:
Please be sure you have signed in to Mr. Goehringer's PE class. The code is: gfkvjw2

Please continue to work on your book report.
We will be doing some work in our VOYAGES text book this week and I will be meeting with you live to share a reading of What was the Holocaust?  I will provide you with an outline to fill in as I read.


Week of April 20-24:
I have assigned a book report. The book title is due to me by Thursday on Google Classroom; the report itself is due on May 14. Complete information is on Google classroom.
We will be working finishing up the prepositions chapter in VOYAGES and completing the test on Tuesday (it'll be from the book). I will meet live on Monday and Thursday.
We will also do some writing about Earth Day this week.

Week 4 (April 6-10)
All assignments posted on Google classroom

We have finished reading THE EGYPT GAME. There will be a test and a writing assignment this week.  In addition, we will review some grammar using ixL on Tuesday and Wednesday.  we will meet live on Thursday to go over Voyages p. 135.

Week 3
April 2, 2020
Meet me on ZOOM at 1:30. Meeting information is on Google Classroom!

April 1, 2020
1. Print out this vocabulary page and complete the assignment on the bottom; click here  (Easy day for April Fool's Day!)
2. If you did not watch and take the quiz on Brainpop yesterday, please do so. See login information below. Be sure to send me your results.

March 31, 2020
1. Complete the questions for section ch 20-23 on Google classroom. 
2. Watch Brainpop video on "Mummies" and complete the quiz.  Send me a picture of your quiz when complete and explain to me any questions you got incorrect: link below
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/mummies/
login info: User: SacredHeart1944
                  Pass: Charger$1

March 30, 2020
1. We will meet live to begin reading ch 20-23 together; link is in Google classroom
2. Answer questions for this section in classroom

Here we go-week 2!
Google classroom code for 7ILA: szh7y6k
top right bar will have a + sign, click, select join class and submit class code

Friday, March 27, 2020
1. see Google classroom for 2 assignments on the Egypt Game ch 15-19

Thursday, March 26, 2020
1. Read chapters 15-19 in THE EGYPT GAME (to page 175)
2. Go to Google classroom and complete the quiz for ch 15-19. remember answers must be in complete sentences and points will be deducted for incomplete sentences.
3. If you have not already done so, catch up on your ixLs; so far I have assigned 
     GG 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and FF 1,2,3,4,5

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
1. We mill meet live in Google classroom (hopefully) at 1:20 to discuss THE EGYPT GAME
2. ixL FF 1,2,3,4,5

Tuesday, March 24, 2020
1. ixL GG 4,5,6,7
2. Egypt Game ch 10-14 questions
(quiz grade)

Friday, March 20, 2020
1. Print and complete Egyptian analogies here

2. read The Egypt Game ch 10-14

3. ixL GG 8,9

Thursday, March 19, 2020
1. Voyages Adverbs and Prepositions  pages 128-129

2. ixL GG 8 and 9

3. Research Egypt:
Create a postcard, complete with picture and at least ten facts about Egypt. Be sure to cite your sources on the back.  Scan or take a picture and email to me no later than Monday, March 23.  

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

1.  Print out then answer the comprehension questions for chapters 6-9
/documents/2020/3/Egypt%20Game%206-9.pdf

2. ixL 7th grade Language Arts GG3



Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The Egypt Game
Read chapter 6-9 and respond below:


Monday, March 16, 2o2o

The Egypt Game
Read chapters 1-5. Copy then answer the following questions: (quiz grade)
1. List three main events in this section. Then write one sentence to describe what you predict will happen in the next section. 
2. Describe how you see the relationship between April and her grandmother.
3. What made the girls start thinking about Egypt?
4. Why did people think of the Professor as "dangerous"?
5. When April met Melanie she was wearing a fur stole, fake eyelashes, and her hair was in a sweep. Why do you think she dressed this way?
6. In what month did the girls start "The Egypt Game"?
7. In the chapter "Enter Melanie and Marshall", April and Melanie talk about playing "imagining games" like paper doll families. Name two "imagining" games that you know of.
8. Where did April and her grandmother live?
9. How did Melanie and April convince Marshall to play the game with them?
10. How old was the item that April found in the A-Z Antique and Curio Shop?

2.  Find and print a map of Egypt.  Locate and highlight the following geographical items: (classwork grade)
Cairo                          Red Sea                            Nile River                          Alexandria                          Aswan
Mediterranean Sea                                       Suez                               Suez Canal                               Sudan
Libya                          Gulf of Suez                  Sinai Peninsula                           Israel                      
                 Gulf of Aqaba                                Al Minya