8 Shearer
Ms. Nancy Shearer – Email
Eighth Grade
8th Grade Summer Reading 2009 <<< Click Here
Hello to all!
We have had a wonderful start to the school year. This trimester we
will complete a literature unit on poetry-¬ themes of family,
friendship, dreams, choices and courage . Later in the trimester we
will begin our unit on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. Students also
plan to write, write, write! We are currently working on our summer
reading essays. Once we complete the essay, we will move on to writing
our balloon racer manuals and later a theater review.
The eighth grade class looks forward to our fieldtrip to the theater
where we will see plays based on great works such as Edgar Allen Poe’s
The Tell Tale Heart, Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hallow,
W.W. Jacob’s The Monkey’s Paw, Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, and
Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
The year has just begun!
