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7th Grade ELA

Policies

Students should be cooperative and respectful in class.

Students should have all supplies necessary.

Students should notify me of planned absence.

Mistakes are ok!

Homework Policy

Homework must be completed as assigned.

If an assignment is not completed, student will stay in at recess to complete.

Late assignments will receive half credit.

Preparation Points

Every student begins with a 100%.

If students forget an item for class, they loose 1 point.

Will be part of the classwork/participation grade.

If absent…

Students are required to find out what they missed.

Students can check the board in class, Google Classroom and/or the website.

All work must be made up.

Late, incomplete and/or missing work will result in loss of homework points.

Class Procedure

Do Now

Writing/Grammar Mini Lesson

Apply mini lesson to writing piece

Writer’s Workshop (if revising)

Writing Focus

6 Writing Traits - Ideas/Content, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions

Grammar - Grammar lessons work in conjunction with the writing pieces. Grammar lessons are also determined based on what skills the students need to master.

Rubrics - They are found in the textbook and are used before, during, and after the writing.

Types of Writing

Personal Narrative

Research

Historical Episode

E-Mail

Literary Analysis

Play

Writing Portfolio

Process work is kept in the classroom.

All finished pieces are logged into the writing portfolio.

Writing pieces are revisited throughout the year and in 8th grade as students become more proficient writers.

GradingELA and Literature are graded as two classes.

Grades can be checked on Genesis.

50% Written Pieces/Tests

30% Quizzes

15% Classwork/Participation

5% Homework

Google Classroom

Chrome books are in the classroom.

Announcements and assignments posted here.

Students have login credentials.

Google Classroom

St. Mary of the Lakes Website

7th Grade — Language Arts

www.smlschool.org

Due Dates

Links to Handouts

Class Notes

Homework

School + Home = Success

Contact me anytime

kdowd@smlschool.org