ELA
Students will be reading/responding or writing at least 2-3 times per night for homework. Students will receive a schedule/calendar each trimester stating what they will be writing about in their Read and respond notebooks. The schedule will also posted on our team calendar.
Some suggestions for responses are:
Summary-answer the 5 W's + your opinion
Character/Scene Sketch-draw and explain your favorite character or scene
Wonder-write down everything you wonder about
Poems/song-write any kind of poem or song to depict what your book is about
When it is just a writing night, you are to write about anything you are thinking about. Think of it like a conversation with me. Papers were sent home in regards to this and needed to be signed off on.
Student resources to help throughout the year:
Basic Persuasive writing formula is in ELA/World notes or here:
How to evaluate a website ( for research purposes)
Overview: In ELA we will be doing many different units that will include class novels, discussions around the central ideas of our novels, as well as several writing pieces .
Our reading and writing units will include the following:
- Informative Writing
- Realistic Fiction
- Narrative Writing (text based and personal)
- NonFiction
- Lit Circles - Fantasy/Historical Fiction
- Argument Writing
***Additional homework assignments will be posted daily on my homework board. All students are required to write down their daily homework in their agendas. Long term projects, tests/quizzes and reader's notebook will be posted on our team calendar.