The Image above is of a little girl named Addie. She is the inspiration behind Elizabeth Winthrop's book Counting On Grace. The book tells the story of children working in a factory in New England before Child Labor Laws were enforced.  Ms. Winthrop has agreed to talk with the Literature Circle group currently reading her book and I can't wait!   You can see other photographs taken of unfair child labor practices by searching for images by Lewis Hine, a photographer who logged more than 50,000 miles taking pictures of children working in the United States.

Click on Brynn's blog. She has a great question for you all and I am very interested to see you answer!

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I have noticed that many of you are having fun finding widgets to put on your own blog pages. Well, I have a new one for you to try. Go to www.wordle.net and create a word cloud that represents you, your best friend, your pet, or just about any topic you can think of.  You can post it on your blog page under the control panel or save it as an image and post it as an article.

Go ahead, give it a try and tell me what you think!

Think of a really good book that you read recently.  Now think about what that book would be like made into a movie. Would you want to see that book as a movie?  Comment us below and tell us what you think. 

December Poems and Essays are due on the 22nd and 23rd.

Check out Makala M's blog and answer her question.....

All right. The first marking period is over, and you made it this far. Hmmm. It wasn't as bad as you thought. Maybe now you can just sit back and chill for a bit. Well, don't get too comfortable; we still have high expectations for you! We still want to see what you can do!  Remember, your blogs are being scored on the writing rubric!

This also means you need to do what is expected of you. You were all given a list of reading journal entry topics at the beginning of the year. Well, some of you have decided that what is actually one of your annotations should be written as a journal entry. We can't post it and grade it as a journal entry if it doesn't fall under one of the ten items you were given.  That doesn't mean we don't want to hear about your favorite parts or things that suprised you or confused you. Just do that separately, and we'll post it. If you lost your list, ask Mrs. Spila for another one. She really won't bite you.

We are also intersted in hearing more about your lives and your opinions. The blogs we did about your seven random things were great and a lot of fun to read. Some of you have started blogging extra things and that makes me very happy. Kelly S was out sick and wrote about two books she read. Logan blogged a while ago about his opinion of recycling, and Keeley told us what music means to her. So, let's hear it seventh grade. What would you like to share with us?

November Poems and Essays are due on the 23rd and 24th .

We need a new mnemonic device besides "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" to remember order of operations.  I would like to hear your ideas.  The twist?  Make up one for PEDMSA.  (Comment if you know why...)  Post your new saying on your blog, and I'll pick the five best ones for you to vote on.  You have to post a blog to vote, so make up a new saying today! 

Due Date for your PEDMSA blog:  Friday November 6th  

Mrs. Tewksbury

Hi Everyone!  It's me, Mrs. Warholic.  Check out the link for our Glencoe Literature book which is your red literature book.  Click on it and play Name that Literary Element.  It's fun for all of us who love our literary elements, and I know that is all of us!

Have fun and see you on Monday! :)

Mrs. Warholic