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7th Grade Grammar Common Assessment for LA periods 2, 3, and 7

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Trimester 2 Midterm

Words to Remember

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
- G.K. Chesterton
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Literacy Workshop

Book Reports

You will be reading three types of books of your choice over the year during silent reading in class --- a fiction, nonfiction, and biography. You will have four book reports, which means one of the three types will be repeated at some point... you may choose which one. Select a book that you have never read before and one that will challenge you. After you have read your book, you will create and present to the class a poster of your book that you are reading

DUE DATES:
Wed., December 3, 2008
Wed., January 14, 2009
Wed., March 25, 2009
Wed., May 13, 2009


The Literacy Workshop class provides time each day for students to improve their reading and writing skills. Students will explore short stories, non-fiction, and alternative forms of literature throughout the year. At the same time students will have the opportunity to work on making their writing more meaningful and powerful.

In order to accomplish this, we will continue to work on the 6+1 Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, and Conventions.

The goals and purpose of this class are based on the following two established school-wide goals:

1. All students will improve their writing skills.
Students with a score of 4 or above will improve by at least .5 and students with a 3 or lower will improve by 1.0 as measured by ISAT, ECRA, and MyAccess.

2. All students will improve their reading skills by 4% on ISAT and by reaching Target Growth on MAP.