Mrs. McEntire’s Team G

February 6-10, 2012

CYs 42-45

Monday: Vocabulary #16 (Click here for previous weeks’ vocabulary words and definitions.)

Tuesday: Writing to Persuade

Wednesday: book reports due; TCAP Baseline test

Thursday: TCAP Baseline, continued

Friday: Vocabulary Test #16

Our next book report is due this Wednesday, February 8.

For our Book Report rubric, click here

LITERATURE: reading and comprehending non-fiction

from the Paris Post-Intelligencer, Published: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 11:59 AM CDT

Paris TN: School goes to the cemetery in Henry County

Jimmy Petersen, an eighth-grader at Inman Middle School, studies the veterans’ marker for Brooks Toler, killed in Europe in January 1945 during World War II.  Two groups of students of Kelly McIntyre and Allen Ashlock took part Monday in a multi-curricular activity at Maplewood Cemetery.  Students were given different assignments in separate areas of the cemetery. Part of Petersen’s assignments were to note graves of veterans. The activity involved math, social studies and language arts.

from the Paris Post-Intelligencer, Published: Friday, September 9, 2011 11:27 AM CDT

Paris TN: Burying the dearly departed words at Inman Middle School in Paris TN

Inman Middle School student Nick Norman (right) shovels dirt over small caskets at a grave site on the school grounds Sept. 1 as fellow students mourn the passing of several words from their vocabulary. Jason Scarbrough, principal, said Kelly McEntire, English teacher, had planned the mock funeral to help students avoid the use of several words considered to be overused. Words buried included am, is, was, were, has, have, had, go, went, forms of be and verbs ending in -ing. Students wrote eulogies for the “dead” words which they read at the grave. They also sang a funeral dirge as they walked to the burial site.