7th Grade Language Arts

Classroom Rules

• Arrive to class on time.
• Bring all required materials.
• Raise your hand to ask or answer questions
• Electronic devices and earbuds should be stored away until requested to take them out.
• Respect yourself and others.

Class Preparation and Organization

• Three ring 1 ½ inch binder with five (5) dividers labeled in this order:

• Root Words
• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Reading
• Writing

• Binders will be graded for contents and organization once a marking period
• Personal reading book for Forty-Book Challenge
• Pencils, red pen, erasers, highlighters, Post-it notes
• Agenda Book - for homework and hallway pass
• Charged laptop
• Earbuds

Curriculum

• Reading

• Literature
• Informational
• Class novels
• Genre exploration through the Forty-Book Challenge
• Online literature
• Six-Way paragraphs
• Common Core English Language Arts Daily Practice
• Literature Circles, Book Clubs, Small-group self-selected novels

• Writing - Writing Pathways Units of Study by Lucy Calkins

• On-Demand Performance Assessments
• Narrative
• Informative/Explanatory
• Persuasive
• Argument

• Grammar

• Grammar will be taught as a springboard for clear, energetic, and interesting writing.
• Emphasis on coordinate adjectives; phrases and clauses; simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence structures.
• Sentence fluency
• Transitions

• Vocabulary

• Short stories
• Novels
• Non-fiction literature
• Weekly lists

• Roots

• Bi-weekly spelling lists consisting of 10 Greek and Latin Roots
• Assessed by Quiz on Fridays

Grading Policy

        40% Tests/Projects

        30% Quizzes

        15% Homework

        15% Preparation/Participation/Classwork

Late Policy

1. If answers to assignment have been given in class, late work WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
2. Half credit will be given for all other late work if turned in the following day only.
3. On due dates, printing must be done before arriving to class or it is considered late.

Attendance

• Absent students should use their laptop to visit teacher websites and Google Classroom from home on days that they are absent.
• Students should also check Power School to determine graded assignments that were missed.
• For each day you are absent, you have two days to make up assignments.