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Welcome to Mrs. LaBrano's Website
Note to Parents: Students have username and passwords to log on to the FCAT Explorer to practice their Reading, Math, and Science skills.
Contact me at labranoe@flagler.k12.fl.us if you would like your child's username and password
1st Period Topic "Long Journey to Justice"
We are reading stories about South Africa, Nelson Mandela,apartheid,
and diamond mining.
Vocabulary words to study for test on 11-07-08
access, bias, conflict,exploit, rural, accumulate,provoke,detect, reveal, ingenious
The target skills we are working on are; analyzing character, setting, plot, and finding the theme, similies and metaphors.
2nd Period Topic "Combat Zone"
We are reading stories about a Vietnam Vet and learning about Memorials dedicated to war vets or other American Heroes.
Vocabulary Words to study for test on 11-07-08
ambush, complicated, hesitate, peril, ponder, site, reality, certainly,inscribe, peer
The target skills we are working on are analyzing character, setting, plot, and finding the authors theme, and symbolism
8th Grade 5&6th period
Topic "The Master of Horror"
We are learning about Edgar Allen Poe and reading the stories he has written.
We just started this topic and the target skills are learning character, setting, and plot, subject and verb agreement.
Helpful links for parents
http://www.connectwithkids.com/parents/
http://www.scholastic.com/schoolage/middleschool/
Students learned about how the News Journal makes a newspaper from start to finish. They also learned about the different jobs and what duties and responsibility each position has.