Accelerated ELA

Ms. Ferran's class

ALA Rules and Policies 2021-22

Join your Google Classroom site! This is where you will find the majority of your information.

https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h (see the code in the ALA slideshow)

Join the REMIND site! (see the code in the ALA slideshow)Text the code to 81010

Welcome to English Language Arts (Accelerated class) at Polk County Middle School! Here is a bit of information about your class.

The Accelerated ELA class is meant to be prepare you for advance courses in high school. Keeping in mind that many students begin college classes their Junior year, we focus on writing, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, logic, and reading higher-level texts and higher-order thinking skills. We also work closely with social studies classes and science classes as we read primary source documents and how LANGUAGE has shaped, and been shaped, by history. We also focus on developing strong writing skills, particularly strong paragraphs and essays.

Because we are a language ARTS class, we also exercise our creativity! I hope you come to class with a willingness to learn, an ability to restructure what you think you know, and a willingness to make mistakes (learning is a messy process, but we improve and learn through error). If you ever need anything, please email me at jferran@polkschools.org.

Week One 2021

Each week, you will get an update with our week's assignments, goals, standards, links, materials, and reminders. This way, if you are absent, or we go remote, you will be able to keep up with our class. The links on this page will provide you with anything you may need.

Important Links:

https://polklibrary.org/ Polk County Library

https://polkschools.org/ Polk County Schools (link to middle school library)

https://readnquiz.com/home.aspx?id=2181 Readnquiz

https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/ Great American Read

https://www.rd.com/list/books-read-before-die/ Reading list of 100 books

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks Banned and Frequently Challenged Books

https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/ Poem- A- Day

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm Grammar games (requires FlashPlayer)

https://www.chompchomp.com/ Grammar resources and games

NCWiseOwl EBOOKS

*eBooks for K-8 and High School!