Students in all 4 of our English classes have wrapped up the novel studies this week!

We’ve worked hard over the last several weeks, reading, writing, quizzing, and discussing our novels.  During these novel studies we learned about:

• character development

• point of view

• settings

• conflicts

• plot arcs

• themes!

(Thank you mistersato411 for all the great videos about the elements of a narrative.)

 

We practiced our understanding of these elements of narrative using short stories and excerpts, watched videos about them, and discussed them in the context of our novels.  Great learning!

7B Read “Freak the Mighty” by Rodman Philbrick

Grade 7A read “No Fixed Address” by Susin Nielsen

 

8A Read “Refugee” by Alan Gratz

And 8B read “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton

We will be switching things up later this year by having Grade 8s switch novels (Grade 8B will read Refugee, Grade 8A will read The Outsiders; Grade 7B will read No Fixed Address, and Grade 7A will read Freak the Mighty), so I’ve asked all students to avoid discussing their novel studies with other classes.  Thank you for not spoiling it for others!

I’m proud of the work we’ve done, and I hope you all are too!