About Us

Welcome to the About Us page of Seven Speaks. We are in seventh grade, and are either twelve or thirteen years old. This year we have a new English Language Arts teacher, Teacher Lacey. When she first introduced us to Seven Speaks, we had yet to get used to it. Our first blog post was about a movie that we all had recently seen, so that was an easy topic. As the year went on we all had our favorite posts and not-so-favorite. We use the blog to post our ideas and to do our weekly homework.

In Teacher Lacey’s class we practice our TAGS (Turn the question into a statement, Answer the question, Give an example or two, and Summarize) which is a PSSA practice skill. We also read our core book; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, share laughs and ideas, and complete Reading Logs. Being in seventh grade, a lot of us like writing, and from looking at the posts, we think that the posts with more of a narrative theme get the best replies. 

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Here's what our "About Us" page used to look like:

Students,

I am pleased to announce that we are now officially entered into the Edublog 10-week student blogging challenge beginning in March!  As part of this challenge, we will be writing and responding to blog prompts and activities alongside other blogging students all over the world (more details to come in the coming weeks).  The blogging challenge starts in March, so in order to get ready, I'm asking you to think about an important component of our blog site: our "About Us" page.

Click on the links below to take a look at the following blogs and read their "About Us" pages.  Notice what they say about themselves and think about what you would like to include on our very own page.  What do you want to say to our community, and the blogosphere in general, about our class and about our blog?  What do our readers need to know?

Huzzaz  6th Grade British Columbia, Canada
Miss T's Classroom  6th-8th Grades New Zealand
Write Out Loud  7th Grade USA

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