May 20-24

May 20, 2013 7th Grade Activities: Last week, seventh graders completed their "Talking Head Collage." This week, they are completing the writing for the collage on Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, students are taking their final district writing assessment of the year. We will conclude the week, and year, with team building activities! 8th Grade Activities: Today, eighth graders completed a "compliment" activity. They will not be attending AVID on Tuesday due to their Six Flags field trip. READ MORE

May 13-17

May 13, 2013 7th Grade Activities: This week, seventh graders are completing their "Talking Head Collage." They will not be attending AVID on Thursday due to the 7th grade trip. We will conclude the week with a team building activity. 8th Grade Activities: This week, eighth graders are writing creative "I Am" poems. They will not be attending AVID on Tuesday or Wednesday due to Harlem Renaissance rehearsals. READ MORE

May 6-10

May 6, 2013 7th Grade Activities: This week, seventh graders are beginning a creative project in which they will make a "Talking Head Collage," which will include our interests, goals, dreams, and character traits. Students will be working on this project throughout the week. 8th Grade Activities: This week, eighth graders are completing the college current event activity. We will also be watching an inspirational movie, "Pay it Forward." (A video form was sent home on Monday). READ MORE

April 29-May 3

May 6, 2013 7th Grade Activities: This week, students completed their college current event activity by reading an article and summarizing the main idea. We also watched a very powerful and motivational movie, "Freedom Writers." 8th Grade Activities: This week, students presented their character traits Comic Life projects. We also began working on a college current events activity, in which students are reading an article and summarizing the main idea. READ MORE

April 26

Apr 26, 2013 Today's Activity/7th Grade: Seventh graders continued the college current event activity. Today, they chose their own article to mark the text and if time allowed they began their writing. Today's Activity/8th Grade: Eighth graders are wrapping up the character traits Comic Life activity. They will share them on Monday. Reminders/Homework: • 8th Grade: LLCC Scholarship Essay due to Ms. Wickham by April 29. 8th Grade Movie orders and$12 due to Mrs. N. by May 13. READ MORE

ISBE Speed Test

Apr 25, 2013 Here is a link we will be using in class to help ISBE know the capabilities of our school's bandwidth. In the future, we will be taking PARCC which is online and in replacement of the ISAT. http://partners.schoolspeedtest.org/illinois.html

April 24-25

Apr 25, 2013 Today's Activity/7th Grade: On Wednesday, seventh graders began a college current event activity. Students will participate in tutorials on Thursday. Today's Activity/8th Grade: On Wednesday, eighth graders are continuing our character traits Comic Life activity. Students will participate in tutorials on Thursday. Reminders/Homework: • Grade report due no later than Friday. • TRF due on Thursday. Complete for homework Wednesday evening. • Please bring $1. READ MORE

April 22-23

Apr 22, 2013 Today's Activity/7th Grade: On Monday, seventh grade AVID students are completing the team building activity that we started last week. Students will participate in tutorials on Tuesday. Today's Activity/8th Grade: We are beginning a fun, new WICOR activity on Monday in AVID. Students are choosing a cartoon character to whom they can relate and using Comic Life to create a display about the common character traits. Students will participate in tutorials on Tuesday. READ MORE