Classroom video

Here's some students working in small groups.

Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean

We are reading the story Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean this week. It's the story about Nellie Bly and how she took a stand during the women's rights movement.

I hope all of you got a chance to look over your report card with your parents. We have two weeks left until winter break so push hard and try your best so you can go into the break feeling good about your work.

My family and I are very talented. Our agent gave us a call over the weekend to perform this dance routine for MTV. This is the Iverson (Von Trapp) family.

Vocabulary words for this week are:

1. feminist
2. spheres
3. Chignon
4. controversy
5. dulcet
6. reformer
7. tenement
8. chaperon
9. circulation

Gandhi

Our story this week is on Gandhi. In what ways did he take a stand? What kind of things did he do?

Grades come out this week (Dec. 4th). Please go over them with your parents and discuss how you are doing. Please look at your strengths, as well as, areas that you can improve. We have a tendency to just look at how we can improve or our weaknesses. Ask yourself how can I be the best student that I can be? What do I need to do differently? What can I be most proud of?

Here are our vocabulary words this week. We have 19 so you need to make sure to study them and know them by Friday for our spelling and vocabulary test.'

1. relics
2. restrained
3. resistance
4. uncommitted
5. profound
6. humiliations
7. timidity
8. concept
9. civil disobedience
10. petition
11. nationalist
12. deported
13. boycotted
14. fasted
15. rural
16. contested
17. quell
18. fanatics
19. oppressor

A Long Way To Go

This is the title of our story this week. It's a longer story but very good. Please make sure to reread it at home so you can remember the details about it for the comprehension test on Friday.

Parents- students will be bringing home progress reports on Friday. I am starting a new trimester after these go out so be aware of new scores.

We have a guest author coming to our school on Thursday. Her name is Nancy Carlson and we made I am poems and self portraits to honor her. They will be posted in the gym but I wanted to show some of them on this blog.

Friday is picture retakes so make sure to practice that lovely smile on Thursday night!

Here are our vocabulary words for this week:

1. nanny
2. shirtwaist
3. tenement
4. bastings
5. knickers
6. suffragists
7. nickelodeon
8. offhanded
9. constitutional amendment
10. abolitionists
11. petitions

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving today. I will see you all at 5am the next day, shopping. Also, enjoy this little break from school and then come back ready to push hard until winter break!

Mr. Iverson

Hello

I kind of want to know who is reading this. Can you reply and say hi? Conferences are going great. I hope to see each student try harder academically and give your best effort. I love to see hard work pay off.

I really enjoy this class this year, but I will say they need to focus more and listen more. What do you think?

Mr. Iverson

Class Discussion

This week we have a new story called "Class Discussion". I have 16 new conferences on Wednesday day and night. If you are one of those conferences please make sure that your child comes with you. They have something to present at the beginning. Also, if you cannot make it for some reason, please call and let the office know that you cannot make it and we can reschedule it. Here are the vocabulary and spelling words for this week:

1. proposed
2. continuity
3. anonymously
4. rally
5. ally
6. accompany
7. incorporate