WELCOMEPlease come in and take a blue supplies list from the front table and find a seat.

MS. GOLLY 7B LANGUAGE ARTShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq65aAYCHOw

6TH TO 7TH GRADE CAN BE A BIG CHANGE. WE WANT OUR 7TH GRADERS TO BE INDEPENDENT THINKERS AND PROBLEM SOLVERS.

A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF I am originally from Ankeny,

Iowa and moved to Arizona 9 years ago.

I graduated from the University of Iowa and recently from NAU with my masters.

I have a son named Wyatt who’s turning three in September and a daughter named Penelope who’s almost 4 months.

We have a tortoise shelled cat named Cookie.

BACKGROUND

This is my 9th year teaching and 7th year teaching 7th grade Language Arts.

I am extremely excited to continue teaching at Altadena and getting to know your kiddo.

I am thrilled to be able to share all the fantastic short stories and trade books this year as well as strengthen their writing.

SUPPLIES

Composition notebook (~need 1 per semester)

pencils Red pen Loose leaf paper Expo marker Old clean sock Colored pencils

NOTEBOOKS

All assignments and assessments will be in their composition notebooks. -easy to see all their assignments and their

improvement over the semester.

Divided into different sections(reading, writing, vocab,) We will do this in class.

Any other assignments will be taped or glued into their notebook.

At any time you want to see what they’re doing in class, you will be able to look through their notebook and see all of their assignments done throughout the quarter.

THE FIVE ARTS OF LANGUAGE

Reading (tradebooks, short stories, poetry, other student’s writing)

Writing (1 big writing assignment a quarter) Listening Speaking Grammar (conventions)

SCOPE MAGAZINE

Scholastic Magazine is geared towards 6-8th graders and has nonfiction articles of high interest targeted towards middle school students.

Aligned to common core standards for reading and writing.

Students will be able to practice summary writing with these articles as well as be up to date on different things going on around the world.

TRADE BOOKS THIS YEAR AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS FOR ELA

1st Call of the Wild

2nd   Freak the Mighty

3rd   Stories from Shakespeare

4th   Seedfolks/Out of the Dust  (TBD)

Personal narrative Persuasive paper Fictional story One paragraph

summaries (a few a month)

Personal letter

TRADE BOOKS AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS FOR AELA

1st  The Giver/ Treasure Island/Nothing but the Truth (TBD)

2nd    Illustrated Man

3rd    As You Like It

4th   TBD

Personal narrative Persuasive paper Persuasive

paragraph Fictional story One paragraph

summaries Personal letter

SPELLING AND VOCAB

Spelling and vocab will be coming from the student’s trade book.

Spelling will also come from the Spalding Spelling rules.

AELA SPELLING

Students will take ~4 classical roots quizzes a quarter in addition to spelling from their trade book.

ABSENT

Students have two days for each day they are absent to make-up work.

It is the students responsibility to go online and check for work and assignments that they have missed. If they miss notes, they can get them from a friend or myself.

GRADES

Grades will be updated weekly. Please be sure to check on a regular basis.

80% assessments

20% homework/classwork

HOMEWORK Homework may be given up to 2-3 times a week. (spelling, vocab,

finishing an assignment, reading assignment)

Students will be given a Holt Literature book and a Language book that they will check out through the library and that will be kept at home.

Homework needs to be turned in on time. If there is a family emergency or circumstance where it can’t be completed, please email me or send a note with your kiddo.

Students will be expected to communicate with their parent if their homework isn’t completed with a note and a parents signature. They have two days to return the note. After two days the student will be given lunch detention.

The assignment can still be turned in for half credit within the following two days.

AC-LAB

Greek and Latin roots will be taken place in Academic Lab this year. Whichever core period your student has Language Arts, that will be the quarter that they have Language Arts for Ac-Lab. Additionally, homework and tests will be assigned a grade in Academic Lab

Period 1-Quarter 1 Language Arts Ac-Lab Period 3- Quarter 2 Language Arts Ac-Lab Period 5-Quarter 3 Language Arts Ac-Lab Period 6-Quarter 4 Language Arts Ac-Lab

READING OPTIONS

Students enjoyed bringing their Kindle, Nook, etc to read the trade book we’re reading in class. It allows students to take notes, highlight, etc.

Students also brought in their own copy from the library or personal copy to take notes and be able to take home.

ELA-Will be able to check out the book at the end of the day if they need to catch up.

COMMON CORE STANDARDS

-alignment of standards among the states -focuses on college readiness standards -increases our expectations -higher text complexity -more non-fiction text -textual based evidence to support answers -gone are the days of guessing: students now

have to explain how they came to their answer in all subject areas

HIGHER ORDER THINKING VS. LOWER LEVEL THINKING

Higher level thinking cues (common core standards)

Make inferences about the theme or author’s purpose.

Analyze an essay. Cite evidence and

develop a logical argument for concepts.

Lower level thinking cues

Identify or describe characters, setting, plot, problem, solution.

Recall, recognize, or locate basic facts, ideas, principles, ideas.

PARCC

http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/Grade%207%20Sample%20Item%20Set--Revised%204-21-14.pdf

On my website (sample questions)

THANK YOU FOR COMING If you have any questions please feel free to email me (dgolly@kyrene.org) and if you missed anything from this presentation, this will be posted on my website.