10:42 UPDATE:
For some reason, my Extra Help Classroom is not opening for students. Plan B is as follows: I am linking a Google meeting link my ELA students can use this week to meet with me.
I am also linking the Remote Schedule for Quarantined Students and Teacher Consultation Schedule for In-person Students.
All students absent this week will be able to access their assignments via Google Classroom. They will be posted each day.
Westfield Public Schools Email: smoore@westfieldnjk12.org
Daily Class Schedule, homework "list", and digital copies of physical documents are available on Daily Agenda and Homework screen of this website.
Homework list will also be pasted to Google Calendar each day. Periods 7 and 8 Google Calendars seem to be having some glitches when I manually enter information. If you are not seeing daily homework for these periods, please let me know.
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Supplies List
charged device
headphones/earbuds
several of each: pens, pencils, highlighters
hand-held pencil sharpener and eraser
1 inch binder for any printed documents
bookmark when we begin reading longer, print texts
personal tissue, hand sanitizer and/or wipes
In middle school ELA classes...
students read a wide range of literature and informational text to become well-rounded informed individuals; teachers concurrently reinforce the reading process to develop students’ capacity for applying familiar active reading strategies to richer, more complex texts. The development of these active reading strategies supports students’ progression through each language arts course, and serves as the foundation for the increasingly complex texts they will encounter as they engage in the production of more sophisticated writing forms. Students use various strategies to compose thesis-driven essays, crafting clear, logical arguments while developing a wider range of vocabulary usage and experimenting with figurative language in narrative forms. Building from previously acquired research skills, students continue to strengthen their knowledge and deepen their understanding of the research process.
In addition to growing students’ content knowledge and skills in the five major areas of literacy learning - reading, writing, speaking, listening, and conventions, we endeavor to develop in our students a lifelong appreciation for the complexity, beauty and power of language. To this end, the New Jersey Competencies for Social and Emotional Learning are intentionally integrated into the learning objectives and essential questions; the expectation is for students to concurrently develop these competencies as habits of mind, and allow these competencies to color the lens through which they consume content, process information, and produce representations of their thinking.