Career Literacy Teacher

Dear 8th grader,

When I started the 8th grade I was quite nervous and anxious at the same time. To be honest it's not that different from 7th grade. Even though most of your teachers probably tell you it more work and the teachers are really strictked it really no different than seventh grade. As long as you do your work and turn it in on time you will have a good year. If you're on team A you will have Mr. Dunford who teaches language arts, Mrs. Merritt she is the math teacher, Mrs. Lewis is social studies, Mrs. Hall teaches science, and Mr. Watson he teaches career literacy. The wonderful thing about having all of these teachers is that they have a good since of humor.

To start off, with Mrs. Merritt she's the math teacher. You will learn some crazy things with her, and do some interesting math projects. Just a few weeks ago she had us take a roll of toilet Paper, and took off every square to stack it up into a rectangle just to calculate

the volume of the toilet paper. At first you might not like the way she skips around on our math pages, but your lean to live with it. Also, she will give you candy sometimes if you win at a game, get one hundred on a test, or you clean her room. As long as you listen and pay attention instead of talking, or goofing off you will make it through her class just fine. Mrs. Merrett is great at explaining this for you, so you will have a better understanding of what your learning.
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Watson is the career literacy teacher. He is one of the new teachers at Barboursville, but overall he was a good teacher. I had Mr. Watson third period and our class was lit there was only seven kids in there including me, but Over the course of the year you will learn a ton about every career out there. I'm going to warn you all now if you get him started on a topic that’s stupid, or he knows the correct answer to why that his or what happened he will lecture about it and he will prove you wrong. We did a bunch of projects from making tiny houses to playing around with Minecraft for our construction unit. You will be doing a lot of speeches mainly informational speeches but it won't be too bad. He is quite the character though. One time he came to school dressed up in all of his harry potter stuff, and wore it all day while drinking out of his Hogwarts cup. Also he came dressed up as Edgar Allan Poe, and if you don't know who that is you will by the end of his class. He is also probably the biggest nerd you’ve ever

seen.
Next is Mr. Dunford he was my homeroom(6th period). In his class we read two story's the time machine, and we got to build our own time machines. The other book was Alice in Wonderland with that book we watched the movie. Though out the year we did an enormous amount of presenting, and doing speeches in his class. If you have a fear of speaking in front of people like I do. He will help you with it. We had created numerous things like schools, awards, and our bridge projects. Mr. Dunford overall is a one of us he will play a lot of pranks on you. Once he was eating a banana and he hit this other girl in my class with the banana peel, and then the next day I got hit with a banana peel twice. Also, don’t fall asleep in his class because you will get multilabel things thrown at you like erasers, a book slammed down beside you or the trash can, and he has a nerf gun he will shoot you with from his desk. Mr. Dunford thinks he's like a rap god or something because he's always spitting fire, and he will say a lot of really corny jokes you probably won't get but you just have to laugh anyways.
Than Mrs. Lewis, she's like a little ball of energy, and it's contagious. her class you will learn about West Virginias history. We do a few projects but with each one we get options like we can create a 3D model, a story or some kind of writing, and a PowerPoint or something like that. Easy ways to pass her class it to do your bell ringers every day, make sure your folder check is completed and in order, and study for her test. She doesn’t have that many test except for our county quizzes. You will have nine county quizzes, but there not that difficult. I always misspelled a few of them that’s another thing you have to watch out for spelling errs. She is studying to be a yoga teacher too so you might break out in some crazy yoga poses sometimes, but there is always some kind of enjoyment in her class.
Last but not least, Mrs. Hall the science teacher. She is one of my favorite teachers at Barboursville. Some of the first things we did in her class were a skittles lab, dichotomous keys, and we did a blood lab. I know what you're thinking real blood she's the mad scientist, but no we used water and food coloring. The great thing about Mrs. Hall is that she does not put up with middle school drama. She will nip it in the bud no questions no asked. Mrs. Hall will tell it how it is. If you are one of those people who are in a lot of drama than your probably not like her. You will also be learning about energy and how we get it. Everyone will be put into groups and you will have to get information about one of the energy sources. If you want to pass her class doing your bell ringers are essential and making sure you study for every nine weeks. If you ever want to butter Mrs. Hall up get her some Sweet and Sassy cupcakes, She's in love with those. You will also learn about food chains and food webs. How they work, why we have them, producer, and the different animals in there.