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What will we be doing this year?

The goal… to write, reflect, and discuss

topics that relate to our students to be accomplished by linking

Language Arts concepts to our writing tasks and writing in a variety of forms.

Our Class Schedule:Begin with a “Do Now”

•The Writing Workshop– Concept/theme based writing

tasks– Mini-lessons on important

elements for a particular type of writing.

– Student-Teacher conferences.– Sharing-critiquing, reflecting,

setting writing goals – Writer’s Notebooks

The Writing Workshop• The Writing Process

– Brainstorming/Prewriting– Drafting– Revising– Editing– Evaluating– Publishing

The 7th Grade Portfolio Checklist

• Persuasive (ethics/change)

• Narrative (perspective)

• Expository Essay (awareness/power)

• Memoir (identity)• Various Writer’s

Notebook entries

Peer evaluation and self-reflection is an essential component to end each major writing task

Meet All Deadlines!All writing assignments begin in

class.Assignments not complete,

after ample class time, must be completed at home.

Rubrics will come home for parent signatures after each major assignment.

Grading Policy Published, Final Writing Tasks– 50%

Writer’s Notebooks/ Smaller Writing Tasks- 30%

Class participation/Classwork (conferences, individual work and preparation of materials)- 20%

Due Dates and Contact Info

Due dates can be checked by going to my teacher page and viewing the calendar.

Email-llukac@spfk12.org

jryan@spfk12.org (period 5)