A challenging day

The 9th graders worked on vocabulary words with denotative and connotative meanings. A couple of students surprised me by completing this assignment in a timely manner. I gave them a little time to work on their essays. I will give them more time tomorrow and a review session for "The Sniper."

We got a new 8th grade student today and he could pass for 18. I'm not sure what kind of student he's going to be, but it's a possibility that he has some issues. He does appear to be much more mature than the others. The students worked on their Greek words spelling packet. They wanted to watch the rest of the movie, but it was quite a chore of keeping them on task. One student received detention and then went on strike and didn't want to do his work.