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Mrs. Judy Carroccio

Grade 8B

ST ROCCO SCHOOL

JOHNSTON, RI 02919

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WELCOME TO MRS. C's 8TH GRADE WEB PAGE

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer



WEEK OF DECEMBER 1ST....

STUDENTS SHOULD BE READING 20-30 MINUTES EVERY NIGHT....

6TH GRADE - FIRST PART OF THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL
REVIEW LITERARY TERMS THEY HAVE ALREADY LEARNED...
AND BEGIN LEARNING NEW ONES.....REVIEW OF ELEMENTS OF
A SHORT STORY AS WELL AS NOTETAKING AND BASIC
WRITING SKILLS. ALL STUDENTS MUST WRITE IN CURSIVE ON
HOMEWORK, CLASSWORK AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS.  ALL
STUDENTS MUST ATTEMPT TO USE THEIR BASIC GRAMMAR SKILLS
(THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS, PUNCTUATION AND SENTENCE
STRUCTURE).

7TH GRADE - STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING THEIR
TEXT BOOK TO CLASS....WE WILL BEGIN READING OUR
NEXT SELECTION. REVIEW OF LITERARY TERMS, EXPECTATIONS
OF THE 2ND TRIMESTER, ELEMENTS OF THE SHORT STORY AND
LITERARY TERMS.

8TH GRADE - THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL BE WORKING ON THEIR
ENTRANCE EXAM EXERCISES. STUDENTS WILL BE WRITING A
ROUGH DRAFT OF A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY AS TO WHY THEY WANT
TO ATTEND THEIR INTENDED HIGH SCHOOL. WE WILL ALSO WORK
ON A PRACTICE TEST FOR THE ENTRANCE EXAM AS WELL. ALL STUDENTS
SHOULD BE PREPARING FOR THE ENTRANCE EXAM FOR DECEMBER 6TH.
ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" BY
LEE HARPER FOR DECEMBER 8TH.

ALL STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE NOTES IN CLASS.
REVIEW OF STORIES, ALONG WITH ORAL
DISCUSSIONS AND CLASSWORK WILL TAKE PLACE.
ALL GRADE LEVELS SHOULD EXPECT TO TAKE
A WEEKLY QUIZ/TEST.

...THIS YEAR'S THEME IS...

"CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CELEBRATE SERVICE"...

ATTENTION 8TH GRADERS....

ALL STUDENTS SHOULD BE FILLING OUT THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR
THEIR INTENDED HIGH SCHOOLS.  STUDENTS SHOULD CONSIDER AT
LEAST 2 SCHOOLS.  PLEASE CONTINUE TO REVIEW FOR THE ENTRANCE
EXAM ON A NIGHTLY BASIS.

THE TRIMESTER IS COMING TO A CLOSE.  PLEASE MAKE A STRONG
EFFORT TO EXAMINE YOUR STUDY HABITS AND WORK ETHICS.  IT IS
VERY IMPORTANT THAT STUDENTS MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BE SUCCESS IN
THEIR ASSESSMENTS, CLASSWORK AND HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT ANY TIME, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK!

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ THE SCHOOL HANDBOOK WHEN AVAILABLE.

   peace....mrs. c.

.........DO YOUR PART TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING.........

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer

THE POETRY CORNER

Poetry


  And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

Pablo Neruda

Lost in the forest...


  Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:
maybe it was the voice of the rain crying,
a cracked bell, or a torn heart.

Something from far off it seemed
deep and secret to me, hidden by the earth,
a shout muffled by huge autumns,
by the moist half-open darkness of the leaves.

Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig
sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance
climbed up through my conscious mind

as if suddenly the roots I had left behind
cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood---
and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

Pablo Neruda

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine




Recommended Books

The Beloved: Reflections on the Path of the Heart, by Kahlil Gibran
Broken Wings, by Kahlil Gibran
Jesus the Son of Man, by Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: A Prophet in the Making, by William Shehadi
Kahlil Gibran: A Spiritual Treasury, by Suheil

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