After working hard with spelling for pronunciation, one class has just finished The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. The Musketeer class has done an excellent job. The 8th grade class continues to enjoy their independent reading choices. Books range from old favorites like The Hobbit, Old Yeller, The Black Pearl to modern ones like The Gift of the Pirate Queen and The Mummy. Another 8th grade class enjoys dramatic reader's theater experience with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Students get to use reading skills once a week on assignments and textbooks for their other classes.
S. C. History Miss Van Patten's S. C. History class spent the first part of the year covering present day South Carolina. The students kept a S. C. journal which includes all 46 counties, their characteristics and industries, their locations, state symbols, and county and state government. The students are using the next part of their year to go back in time to the beginning of our state. The class has progressed past the Lords Proprietors and the Charles Towne settlement time period. They are now entering the time of rice.