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Ms. Blitz
Welcome to Quartz Core Language Arts!
Contact Information
• E-mail or text is the best way to contact me.• My email: [email protected]
• To sign up for the text messaging service, see the information on the back of your pink sheet.
• My website: www.MsBlitz.weebly.com
7th Grade writing night(Mark your calendar)
Thursday, October 3,at 6:30
• In the Auditorium
• Please join the 7th grade students and teachers for an evening of introduction to the 7th grade writing program and information about HOW TO HELP your student at home.
• Students will bring the 2nd draft of their autobiographical event essay.
• More than 90% of Lincoln students scored proficient or advanced on the 7th grade state writing test.
California Language Arts Standards
• Written and Oral English Language Conventions• Sentence Structure• Grammar• Punctuation• Spelling• Vocabulary• Roots, suffixes and prefixes
Reading• Core Novels
• A Day No Pigs would Die• The Giver• The Red Scarf Girl• The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer**IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE
COPIES OF ANY OF THESE TITLES, PLEASE SEE ME. WE ALWAYS NEED SOME EXTRA COPIES!**
• Book Projects• Classic, biography, realistic
fiction, and historical fiction selections
• Short stories• Poetry• Non-fiction reading
Writing• Narrative
• Autobiography• Story
• Response to Literature
• Persuasive• Summary• Research
Computer access: we have it!
• There will be numerous assignments required to be completed on the computer this year. Essays, poems, and reports, just to name a few.
• Computers and printers are available in the library, computer, lab, and in my classroom.
• I recommend keeping a flash drive for your student in case he or she needs to bring an assignment to school to print.
Who am I? project
• Portfolio project• A compellation of writing completed primarily in Language Arts,
but also in Social Studies, Science, and Math• Please see the back of the pink sheet for detailed information
about each assignment
• Exit interview:• “What is a Worthwhile Life?”
