LANGUAGE ARTS

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• LANGUAGE ARTS
• 2003-2004

Slide Show Created by Mary Hebert and the
Language Arts Department
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WHO TEACHES LANGUAGE ARTS?
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WHAT IS LANGUAGE ARTS?
READING WRITING GRAMMAR VOCABULARY SPEECH RESEARCH
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WHAT TEXTS ARE USED?

• LANGUAGE ARTS TODAY - grammar
• WORDLY WISE 3000 - vocabulary
• CHOICES - reading anthology
• MLA - research booklet
• CORE LITERATURE - novels

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WHAT ARE THE CORE NOVELS?

• CORE - All students will read both books
• Diary of Anne Frank (drama version)
• Adems Cross
• author Alice Mead

Authors Goodrich Hackett
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WHAT ARE THEEXTENDED NOVELS?

• The Cage
• The Devils Arithmetic
• Edgar Allen
• They Cage the Animals at
• Night
• Something for Joey
• Chinese Cinderella
• Song of the Buffalo Boy
• Forbidden City
• Dragonwings
• Of Nightingales that Weep
• The Girl Who Loved Tom
• Gordon
• Eleven Seconds
• The Girl Who Owned a City
• Bat 6

All students will read at least 3 books from
this list
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WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THEMATIC UNITS OF STUDY?
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The Maine CourseThe Way Life Should Be?
Read - a book about Maine or by a Maine author
Write - descriptive writing (Anchor Task)
poetry
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Multicultural MosaicLife on the other side of
the world

• Read - a book about another culture, especially
  the Middle and Far East analyze Two Kinds
  (Anchor Task)
• Write - compare and contrast essay poetry
  such as haiku

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The I-Search ProjectResearch in Action

• Read - informational print sources websites
• Write - informational pamphlet, notes, outline,
  works cited
• Analyze - sources
• Speech - interview
• sources present
• findings orally
• (Anchor Task)

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The Diary of Anne FrankTolerance and Prejudice

• Read - a book about prejudice /tolerance
• Read aloud Diary of Anne Frank (play) Write - A
  journal collection and an essay on propaganda
  (Anchor Task)

Diary of Anne Frank
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Adems CrossEthics in Literature

• Read Core book Adems Cross
• Research - issue related to novel on laptops
• Write - a letter to the author, Alice Mead
  (Anchor Task)

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Biography UnitIts True!

• Read a biography/autobiography
• Write Dont we all have a story to tell?

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WHAT IS THE GRADING SYSTEM ?

• A 90 - 100
• B 80 - 89
• C 70 - 79
• D 60 - 69
• E 0 - 59

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HOW IS LA WORK ASSESSED?
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WHAT IS THE 7th GRADEHOMEWORK POLICY?

• READ 30 minutes EVERY DAY
• HW due on date assigned at beginning
• of class
• Include name, date, class
• Standards neat, complete, best work
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HOMEWORK POLICY continued

• If absent, check with teacher for missed work
  and deadlines.
• If there are extenuating circumstances, bring a
  note from parents.
• Consequences for late work
• Daily work - 0 (1/2 credit within 24 hrs)
• Long term work - loss of 1 letter grade per
  day late.

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IS EXTRA HELP AVAILABLE?

• After school Study Group
• Any day after school with appointment
• Study Hall
• CREST classes
• for lowest 15
• readers

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WHAT ARE SOME HELPFUL HINTS FOR SUCCESS in 7th
GRADE LA?

• Talk with your son/daughter about class work,
  writing, and reading.
• Help your child use his/her assignment book,
  assessment lists, and notebooks to stay
  organized.

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WHAT ELSE?

• Encourage lots of reading at home
• (30 minutes is required daily).
• Post the Language Arts calendar/agenda on the
  refrigerator..

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IS THAT ALL?...

• Encourage your child to make up absent work
  promptly.
• Come to school events such as Open Houses,
  Conferences, Spelling Bees, Geography Bees, Field
  Trips, Culture Nights, etc.

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST...

• Bookmark LA_at_MSK on the Internet
• Teacher Assignments
• Thematic Units
• Grammar Skills
• Student Work
• Maine Learning Results
• Core Novels
• Videos

• (http//staff.msad71.net/daltonpages/LA_at_MSK20HO
  ME/language_artsHOME.htm)

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THANK YOU for learning about LA_at_MSK!

• The Language Arts Teachers of MSK