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Who is this teacher? Graduated from Kean University with a B.A. in English and elementary education (certified to teach K-12 in Language Arts/English) Several years of 7 th grade Language Arts experience. Park Middle School Newspaper Advisor

What will we be doing this year? The goal of this class is to write, reflect, and discuss topics that relate to our students as individuals, as well as the world around them. We will accomplish this 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 7 th 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! Most of the work for Writing Workshop is completed in class, which means students must be on task! Students are given ample time to finish writing tasks; however, if an assignment is not finished by a deadline, they will need to finish it at home.

Not a Lecture! Writing Workshop is student centered, which means all students take ownership for their learning. »Resource Center/Mentor Text Center »Vocab Maps »Expert Board »Post-it method »Student-Teacher conferences »Peer and self evaluation of work »Self reflection on each genre of writing

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. -