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Assignments

8th Grade: Friday, May 11, 2012: Take both quizzes below by clicking on each link. Copy and paste your quiz results into an e-mail to Mrs. Acton. Don't send it yet. . .

Quiz #1. Introvert or Extrovert?

Quiz #2. Introvert or Extrovert?

FINALLY, in your message to Mrs. Acton, write a paragraph summary with your opinion of the quiz results. Do you agree or disagree ? Would you label yourself as an extrovert or introvert? Are you ever both? Explain.

8th graders -- Now send it to Mrs. Acton. You're finished!

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Hi, I'm April Acton. I teach language arts classes at Gladbrook-Reinbeck Middle School. I have loved reading and writing all of my life, and I enjoy sharing this interest with students.
 
 
 
 
 

My classroom
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I have many paperback books for students to read.
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Here are some of the things I like to spend my money on.
Yes, I am a word nerd and and an English queen (so to speak).

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Famous authors - finger puppets
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Tolstoy, Parker, Shakespeare, Poe, Dickens, Austen

Bobbleheads for Edgar and Will
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Click on photo to visit school website.

Follow my blog!

Click here for My Trip to Spain

Click here for My Trip to New York City

Click here for more photos on my personal webpage, including family, vacations, pets, and more.


 
 
 
"Richer than I you can never be;
I had a mother who read to me."

                                - Strickland Gillilan
 
 
 
 

Click here for www.dictionary.com.

Click here for Rhyme Zone, an online rhyming dictionary .

Click here for Citation Machine. (Footnotes, bibliographies, etc.)

Click here for 7th Grade Christmas Pictograph Sites

Click here for 8th Grade Revolutionary War Sites

Click here for our Shakespeare WebQuest.

Click here to see our Olympic Gold Medal web sites.