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Welcome to the 8th grade home page

    • Welcome

                  

      High School

       

      On May 28, 2010 the 8th grade class said a fond farewell during a beautiful Graduation Mass.

       Many of the students have been accepted to Selected Enrolment High Schools, such as Lane Tech, Northside, Walter Payton, and Whitney Young. Not to mention all the amazing acceptances to Catholic High Schools, such as Loyola, St. Ignatius, Gordon Tech, and many more. Our students have even been invited to take honors and double honors classes. We wish them all successes and happiness in high school

       

      High schools Acceptances

      - Nothside College Prep

      - Lane Tech High School

      - Notre Dame High School

      - Resurrection High School

      -Walter Payton High School

      - Gordon Tech High School

      -Lincoln Park High School

      -Whitney Young High School

      -Loyola Academy

      -St. Ignatius High School

      -St. Benedicts High School

      -North Town Academy

      -De La Salle

       

       

      Junior High (Middle School) Supply List

      2010-11

       

       Glue sticks/glue

      Flash drive

      Red pens

      Black pens

      No. 2 pencils

      Scissors

      6 notebooks (1 for each subject)

      1 special notebook for a journal in Language Arts

      6 two-pocket folders (three-hole punch if you like)

      Loose-leaf paper

      Graph paper

      Protractor, compass, and ruler

      Colored pencils

      Washable markers and/or crayons

      Highlighters

      Note cards (4 packs of 100)

      2 pencil cases

      Book covers for textbooks

      1 box of tissues (Kleenex)

      1 roll of paper towels

      3 packs of Post-Its (any size)

      3 three-ring binders with dividers (1½-inch thick binder)

      A Scientific calculator is required.

      A graphing calculator is recommended for 8th Grade.

      Recommended:  Larousse Concise Spanish-English Dictionary

      9" x 12" 100 sheet drawing pad (must have)

      1 box of 1" panelboard nails

      1 roll of paper towels

       

       

       

      Incoming  7th and 8th Grade students are expected to read two books.

      Students will be expected to make posters or Powerpoints related to their books.  The posters or Powerpoints must show major story events and information about the characters.

      Students will present their posters or Powerpoints the first week of school.

       

      Summer Reading Hints

      • It is sometimes helpful to keep notes on the main characters and the highlights of events in the story to refer to before you take your test.
      • It may also be helpful to note things about the character who interested you most, or events in the story that puzzled you.
      • Consider what you might suggest if the author asked you what could be improved in the story.
      • Have fun reading!

      2010  Summer Reading List

       

      Grade 7

       

      Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne W. Houston

      Belle Prater's Boy - Ruth White

       

      Crash  – Jerry Spinelli

       

      Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

       

      The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

      The Island - Gary Paulsen

      The Lillies of the Field - W. Barrett

      Lily's Crossing - Patricia Giff

      Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

      A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck

      Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff

      The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

      Riding the Flume - Patricia Pfitsch

      The Secret Garden - Frances H. Burnett

      Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - Jennifer Armstrong

      Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers Ed.) - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

      Travel Team - Mike Lupica

      Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

      20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

      When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Kimberly Willis Holt

      Where the Lillies Bloom - Vera and Bill Cleaver

       

       

      Grade 8

      Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

      Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

      The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman - Ernest Gains

      The Black Stallion - Walter Farley

      Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther

      Elsewhere - Gabrielle  Zevin 

      Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov

      Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

      Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury

      A Man Without A Country - Edward Hale

      Maximum Ride - James Patterson

      The Moves Make the Man - Bruce Brooks

      Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

      Olive’s Ocean – Kevin Henkes

      The Outcasts of Poker Flat - Bret Harte

      Rascal - Sterling North

      Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier

      Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor

      Shane - Jack Schaefer

      Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella

      Sounder - William Armstrong

      The 39 Clues - The Maze 0f Bones - Rick Riordan

      Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson

      White Fang - Jack London

      The Wind Singer - William Nicholson

      The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare

      Witness - Karen Hesse

      The Yearling - Marjorie Rawlings