Dear 7th Grade Students,
I am your 7th grade ELA teacher: Ms. Yanolatos. I am so excited to learn with you, and I look forward to helping you achieve your successes as you guide yourself through your own education!
I’m so excited to be teaching you during this 2024-2025 school year! This will be my 22nd year teaching in the NYC DOE. I love the beach, hiking, traveling to new places, reading a great book, and painting.
I set high expectations for my students and expect nothing but your best! Persevering, tackling difficult texts and tasks, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes will propel you to be the best reader and writer you can be!! Setting reading goals and reading books that you love to read will increase your reading level and get you ready for high school.
This year, ELA will be a little different than other classes you may have had. This is where you will learn about self-regulation, responsibility, and self-paced learning! It's exactly what it sounds like. You will pace yourself through lessons and take the time to actually ensure you understand what you're being taught before you move on to something new.
I’m really looking forward to teaching you this year and I can’t wait to meet you!!! It will be my honor to get to teach you this year!
Sincerely,
Ms. Yanolatos