English ala Cirillo, room 124 

Welcome to Ms. Cirillo's English class.

This year, the students will be exposed to a modified sixth grace curriculum and travel through our newly adopted curriculum, SAVVAS. The program contains many stories and activities to build student skills in reading, comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language, writing, and so much more aligned with New York State's core standards. The students will also read a novel this year (to be determined).

Each students unique learning styles and individual needs will help drive instruction with the necessary flexibility to support student learning.

The following details are important:

Supplies:

• 3 ring binder (2 inches or more). This binder will stay in the classroom. Any assignments will be either on GoogleClassroom or on paper brough back and forth in an English only homework folder.

• homework folder

• page dividers

• looseleaf paper

• pencils   PENCILS ARE NECESSARY for all writing tasks. They will not be provided to the students and students who do not have pencils will lose points from their class participation grade.

Grading policy:

Assessments: 30% (Tests and quizzes)

Writing: 30%

​Projects: 20%  Projects will be assigned at lease two weeks in advance and are due on their due date. If projects are not turned in, the students will be scored with a "0". 

Class Participation: Classwork and Assignment completion: 20%

Writing format:

R...Restate the question  (use the words right from the question)

A...Answer the question (what is the question asking you, then answer it!)

C...Cite evidence. You MUST use details from the text, word for word, and cite these words....On page _____of __ (title and author of book, passage, article, etc.) the author wrote (or other sentence starters)  "____________________." (This is needed to PROVE that the response is correct)

E...Explain your answer and include some of the details from the text.

It's important to R.A.C.E. for all writing tasks!