• All ”Man without a Country” assignments are due on Monday:  the assessment questions, the notes, and the collage.
• “The Man without a County”:  http://wondersoftheearthandsky.wordpress.com/the-man-without-a-country/
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Word of the Day:  efface

7th Grade Language Arts:

• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Animal Farm quiz #3 was taken today.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 are due on 2-29-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• Word of the Day:  dwindle

8th Grade Religion:

• We are studying chapter 12:  The History of Catholicism in America.
• Today is an SLE work day.
• Today is the feast day of Saint John the Harvester.
• SLE focus of the week:  being a life long learner who explorers and experiences the arts.

• Students were assigned “The Man without a Country” assessment questions today:  due next Monday.
• “The Man without a County”:  http://wondersoftheearthandsky.wordpress.com/the-man-without-a-country/
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Poetry analysis assignment due tomorrow.
• Word of the Day:  N/A

7th Grade Language Arts:

• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Students were given a “symbolism in Animal Farm” assignment today:  due tomorrow (2-23-12).
• Animal Farm quiz #3 over chapter 5 will be on Friday.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 are due on 2-29-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• Word of the Day:  dour

8th Grade Religion:

• Today is Ash Wednesday!
• Chapter 11:  The History of Catholicism in America.
• This Friday will be an SLE work day:  be prepared.
• Today is the feast day of Saint Margaret of Cortona.
• SLE focus of the week:  being a life long learner who explorers and experiences the arts.

• We finished reading ”The Man without a Country” today.
• Spelling/vocabulary warm-up done today in class.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Poetry analysis assignment due 2-23-12.
• Word of the Day:  edifice

7th Grade Language Arts:

• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary warm-up was done today in class.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 are due on 2-29-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• Word of the Day:  diurnal

8th Grade Religion:

• Q and A day.
• This Friday will be an SLE work day:  be prepared.
• Today is the feast day of Saint Severian, a 5th century bishop of Galilee.
• SLE focus of the week:  TBA

“The Cardinal Bird”

A day and then a week passed by:

The redbird hanging from the sill

Sang not; and all were wondering why

It was so still–

When one bright morning, loud and clear,

Its whistle smote my drowsy ear,

Ten times repeated, till the sound

Filled every echoing niche around;

And all things earliest loved by me,–

The bird, the brook, the flower, the tree,–

Came back again, as thus I heard

The cardinal bird.

When maple orchards towered aloft,

And spicewood bushes spread below,

Where skies were blue, and winds were soft,

I could but go–

For, opening through a wildering haze,

Appeared my restless childhood’s days;

And truant feet and loitering mood

Soon found me in the same old wood

(Illusion’s hour but seldom brings

So much the very form of things)

Where first I sought, and saw, and heard

The cardinal bird.

Then came green meadows, broad and bright,

Where dandelions, with wealth untold,

Gleamed on the young and eager sight

Like stars of gold;

And on the very meadow’s edge,

Beneath the ragged blackberry hedge,

Mid mosses golden, gray and green,

The fresh young buttercups were seen,

And small spring-beauties, sent to be

The heralds of anemone:

All just as when I earliest heard

The cardinal bird.

Upon the gray old forest’s rim

I snuffed the crab-tree’s sweet perfume;

And farther, where the light was dim,

I saw the bloom

Of May-apples, beneath the tent

Of umbrel leaves above them bent;

Where oft was shifting light and shade

The blue-eyed ivy wildly strayed;

And Solomon’s-seal, in graceful play,

Swung where the straggling sunlight lay:

The same as when I earliest heard

The cardinal bird.

And on the slope, above the rill

That wound among the sugar-trees,

I heard them at their labors still,

The murmuring bees:

Bold foragers! that come and go

Without permit of friend or foe;

In the tall tulip-trees o’erhead

On pollen greedily they fed,

And from low purple phlox, that grew

About my feet, sipped honey-dew:–

How like the scenes when first I heard

The cardinal bird.

How like!–and yet . . . The spell grows weak:–

Ah, but I miss the sunny brow–

The sparkling eye–the ruddy cheek!

Where, where are now

The three who then beside me stood

Like sunbeams in the dusky wood?

Alas, I am alone! Since then,

They’ve trod the weary ways of men:

One on the eve of manhood died;

Two in its flush of power and pride.

Their graves are green, where first we heard

The cardinal bird.

The redbird, from the window hung,

Not long my fancies thus beguiled:

Again in maple-groves it sung

Its wood-notes wild;

For, rousing with a tearful eye,

I gave it to the trees and sky!

I missed so much those brothers three,

Who walked youth’s flowery ways with me,

I could not, dared not but believe

It too had brothers, that would grieve

Till in old haunts again ‘t was heard,–

The cardinal bird.

By William Davis Gallagher

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 is today.
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12
• Sent/paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Poetry analysis assignment due 2-23-12.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 is today.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #10 will be on 3-2-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 are due on 2-29-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.

8th Grade Religion:

• We are studying chapter 9.

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 will be tomorrow.
• Sent/paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• “The Rocket” and “The Rocket Man” comparison essay is due tomorrow.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Poetry analysis assignment due 2-23-12.
• Word of the Day:  dwindle.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• Animal Farm quiz #2 (over chapters 3 and 4) is today.
• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 will be on tomorrow.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #10 are due on 2-29-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• Word of the Day:  dishevel.

8th Grade Religion:

• We are studying chapter 9.

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Sent/paraphrases #10 due 2-28-12
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• “The Rocket” and “The Rocket Man” comparison essay is due on Friday, 2-17-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.
• Poetry analysis assignment due 2-23-12.
• Word of the Day:  dishevel.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• Animal Farm quiz #2 (over chapters 3 and 4) will be on Thursday.
• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #9 are due today.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• Word of the Day:  dichotomy.

8th Grade Religion:

• We are studying chapter 9.
• Chapter 9 assessment questions (Testing 1,2,3) are due Thursday.

8th Grade Language Arts:

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• The students took “Word of the Day” quiz #3 today.
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Sent/paraphrases #9 were collected today.
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• “The Rocket” and “The Rocket Man” comparison essay is due on Friday, 2-17-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• Animal Farm quiz #2 (over chapters 3 and 4) will be on Thursday.
• The students took “Word of the Day” quiz #3 today.
• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #9 are due tomorrow.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.

8th Grade Religion:

• We are studying chapter 9.
• Chapter 9 assessment questions (Testing 1,2,3) are due Thursday.

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• Word of the Day quiz #3 will be tomorrow.
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Sent/paraphrases #9 are due tomorrow.
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• “The Rocket” and “The Rocket Man” comparison essay is due on Friday, 2-17-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• Animal Farm quiz #2 (over chapters 3 and 4) will be on Thursday.
• Word of the Day quiz #3 will be tomorrow.
• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #9 are due 2-15-12.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• The “Niggle” Essay is due today.

8th Grade Religion:

• Chapter 9.

• We are continuing to read and study “The Man without a Country.”
• Word of the Day quiz #3 will be next Tuesday.
• Word of the Day notes will be checked next Monday.
• Spelling vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Sent/paraphrases #9 are due 2-14-12.
• Reading log #10 (four paragraph summary and 280 minutes) is due 3-6-12.
• “The Rocket” and “The Rocket Man” comparison essay is due on Friday, 2-17-12.
• Poetry memorization assignment #3:  poems will be recited from memory to the class on Tuesday, 2-28-12.

7th Grade Language Arts:

• Word of the Day quiz #3 will be next Tuesday.
• Word of the Day notes will be checked next Monday.
• Poetry recitation #3 will be done during the week of February 6th.  The poem is “Tears.”
• We are reading the novel Animal Farm.
• Spelling/vocabulary quiz #9 will be on 2-17-12.
• Vocabulary sentences and paraphrases #9 are due 2-15-12.
• Reading log #9 (three paragraph summary and 260 minutes) is due today.
• Reading log #10 is due 3-8-12.
• The “Niggle” Essay is due on Feb. 13th.

8th Grade Religion:

• Chapter 9.