Thank you, parents, for the opportunity to learn with your children and for your continuous support.  Students, thank you for always encouraging me to understand how you best learn and for your infectious enthusiasm for our class.  I hope you have gained confidence in your abilities in the reading/writing/listening/speaking dimensions of language arts and purpose in the process of discovering who you are as a human being.  It has been an incredible journey!  I will miss you all!

Genesis: Students finished their writing workshop portfolios this week.  Their work on this project was tremendous, and students frequently expressed their observations of how exactly they have grown as writers, which was meaningful to see.  We mapped out this 6th grade year and interpreted these key narrative events in drama groups.  We began reading a play, The House of Dies Drear, adapted from the novel by Virginia Hamilton.

Legacy: This week was filled with end-of-year activities.  We held our final “Rekkas Class” on Tuesday, where students wrote a letter to their future selves (to be mailed by me in four years).

Explorers: This week was filled with end-of-year activities.  We held our final “Rekkas Class” on Tuesday, where students wrote a letter to their future selves (to be mailed by me in four years) and visually mapped out this year of 8th grade.