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=Welcome to our 8th Grade Community!! =

This semester we are going to be exploring many different books that have brought about controversy in some schools. We will be focusing our attention first on The Giver by Lois Lowry. We will also be exploring new ways to present projects using technology. Each student will be asked to create a response to the book either through a digital storytelling or a digital poetry and post it here on the site. Symbolism is also a really important aspect in books so I will ask that everyone pick out an important symbol from the book, represent it and write a small paragraph on what they think it means. The last project that each student will create is a digital collage, representing important qualities that you found while reading the book. For __The Giver,__ I ask that everyone do all three of the projects, either alone or in a group, and then for the other novels you can can chose one of the project types. For this class there will also be a blog set up where discussions can get started about these novels. The blog will be a place where you can post questions, answer other peoples questions and just have general dicussion about anything in the novels. I have provided an example of each of the projects so that you can see what they each look like.


 * Here are the list of books that we will be reading this year: **