1. Joanne Newell Humanities and Teen Living
Curriculum Night
Joanne Newell
Humanities and Teen Living

2. The Leader in Me
7 Habits
Student-led conferences
Leadership binders

3. Humanities Holt McDougal Literature for 7th grade
Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop
Pearson Texas History
Pearson Login information
Username Initials + lps ex. jenlps
Password LPSLions1
Some exceptions to usernames

4. Learning Outcomes Knowledge & Thinking- 40% Oral Proficiency- 15%
Written Proficiency- 15%
Agency- 15%
Collaboration- 15%

5. Discipline Procedures
“The Book”
Discipline Reporting Form
Discipline referrals

6. Procedures Daily DO NOW Interactive vocabulary wall Book studies
Writing
Texas history
Honors differentiation
Deeper thinking not more information

7. Writing Personal narrative Expository essay Letter to the editor
Analytical essay
Monologues
Narrative poetry

8. Reading Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
The Giver - Spring book reading in class
Honors Summer book - The Witch of Blackbird Pond

9. Texas History Topic 1 Natural Texas and its People
Topic 2 The Age of Contact
Topic 3 Spanish colonial and Mexican National Eras
Topic 4 Revolution and Republic
Topic 5 Early Statehood, Civil War, and Reconstruction
Topic 6 Cotton, Cattle, Railroads, and the Age of Oil
Topic 7 Texas in the Great Depression and WWII
Topic 8 Era of Civil Rights and Conservatism