This past week, middle school continued with their work on poetry leading up to LAD Fair. They completed a poetry worksheet which tasked them with working with selected poems, tracking their rhyme schemes, and identifying many of the poetry terms that we covered within the poems presented. Once completed, we went over the worksheet as a class so as to identify any terms that students might have missed. By working collaboratively in this fashion, they were able to fill in any gaps that they may have missed. Leading up to the their “Celebration of Knowledge” on Thursday ( for those that don’t know, I refer to tests as Celebrations of Knowledge so as to reduce test anxiety), we played a version of Jeopardy in which students divided into teams and went head to head to identify definitions, examples, and other categories to shore up their knowledge and solidify the terms in their minds. On Thursday, they took their Celebration of Knowledge online. While they haven’t yet been graded fully, a cursory glance at them showed that the vast majority of the students were very comfortable with the material. On Friday, we will begin work on their LAD Fair projects, a long terms project that will be visited at least once a week leading up to the competition in April. We typically do very well in this competition, and, knowing the students I am lucky to have this year, this year should be no exception. I’m looking forward to seeing what these young authors come up with!