Greetings to all this week! Here are the plans for my classes this week:

7th Social Studies

Seventh grade has a test on chapter 9, The Era of Thomas Jefferson on Tuesday, May 22nd. Extra help will be Tuesday morning before school. The study guide is available to view here. Later this week, the students will continue working on an activity on the origin of the Star Spangled Banner, from the perspective of its author, Francis Scott Key.

8th Social Studies

The eighth grade will be wrapping up World War II this week first by studying what was happening on the home front, and then looking at the last battles that led to an Allied victory. The test on Chapter 24 will be next Thursday, May 31st. You may view the study guide here.

8th Religion

This week we will be looking at how the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament were fulfilled in Jesus’ birth, life, death, and resurrection from the dead. The memory verse for this week is Matthew 1:22-23, which is on page 105 in the student book.