WELCOME PARENTS!

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(1) Sign in on my attendance sheet.

(2) Record your email address if you are NOT currently receiving my weekly emails.

(3) Write a brief note to your son or daughter; I promise we won’t check these for conventions!

Mrs. LaBongeLanguage

Arts8th Grade

WHO IS MRS. LABONGE ?

I AMI am an eighth grade English teacher at Strayer

and have been for the past seventeen years.

I am a graduate of the University of Notre

Dame, so I am obviously a Fighting Irish Fan!

I am a wife of sixteen years to my high school sweetheart.

I am mother of three exceedingly busy children (Hannah (14), Madelyn (11) and Brecken (8)).

I am a chauffeur endlessly driving them to soccer, karate, piano, voice, PREP, and play-

dates.

I am YOUR child’s dedicated teacher who strives to see them succeed.

I am SUE LABONGE.

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM• SpringBoard (4 units)

•SEVENTH year of implementation for grades 6-11

•SpringBoard is aligned with CollegeBoard and Pennsylvania standards.

•It is a rigorous program that exposes students to a wide variety of genres; it includes excerpts from “The Odyssey” to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare, CORE NOVEL: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

•It focuses on teaching strategies (TPCASTT and SOAPStone) that will help them attack and analyze various texts.

•Students have their own book which enables them to record notes and mark the text (further improves reading skills).

•Students have access to their book on-line as well!

EMBEDDED ASSESSMENTS:

Each unit in SpringBoard requires students to complete TWO Embedded Assessments.

Unit 1 Writing a Hero’s Archetypical Journey Narrative Writing a Definition Essay: Defining a Hero

Unit 2 Writing an Expository Essay Writing an Argumentative Essay

Unit 3 Presenting Voices of the Holocaust (Panel

Discussion) Presenting a Multimedia Campaign

Unit 4: Writing an analysis of a Humorous Text Performing Shakespearean Comedy

THE MAN WHO DOES NOT READ GOOD BOOKS HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER THE MAN WHO CAN'T READ THEM.  ~MARK

TWAIN

•READING REQUIREMENT:•Students will …..

•Select 2 books from a different genre each marking period. •Complete given assignment assessing their comprehension via the learning targets of:

•Key ideas and Details•Craft and Structure

•Students present and critique the book to the group.

FIRST due date is September 24th!

GRADING  Grades are weighted as follows:

Graded Evidence: 90%Homework Completion: 10%

***A graded assignment will lose 10% each day it is late.

Daily homework is given a completion score as follows:2 – complete according to expectations0 – little to none attempted

***HW that is late will receive a score of zero.

RANDOM CLASS INFORMATION:

• At home practice is always updated and posted on the website (includes attachments students may print and use).

• http://www.qcsd.org/domain/506

• COMING ATTRACTION: Canvas!

• I keep all class handouts on my back countertop for ONE week.

• Parent portal enables access to grades; I post evidence.

BEST WAY TO GET A HOLD OF ME….

•Email….slabonge@qcsd.org

•Or call 215-529-2335 (will NOT ring through

during the day).