1. Welcome to 7th Grade Language Arts
Elizabeth Honn
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It is a pleasure to work with your student each day to help them become stronger readers, writers, and thinkers.
As this evening is a group meeting, please send me an or call anytime you have questions, concerns, or if you’d like to set up a meeting to talk about your student.

2. Nuts and Bolts What is the best way to contact me?
What if a student is absent?
It is the student’s responsibility to get the work he/she missed or to schedule a time to make something up.
They need to check my website for what they missed.
A student has one extra day per excused absence.
How often is Family Access updated?
As soon as possible after an assignment is graded

3. My Teaching Philosophy
Learning should be engaging and challenging, and is not optional.
High standards are for everyone (including myself).
Basic fundamentals, educational & social, are extremely important for success and happiness.
Reading, writing, and thinking are life skills.
Skills developed in the humanities will apply in all disciplines and in all careers.
Grades should reflect ability, not behavior. Behavior sometimes impedes skills.

4. Understanding Grades on Family Access
Academics
Success Indicators
Assignments 0%
Assessments 100%
Tests
Projects
Summative work where learning standards are being measured
Work Habits 0%
Work Quality, Work Completeness, Work Punctuality
Initiative 0%
Self-advocacy, Reflection, Persistence
Collaboration 0%
Team work, Inclusion, Participation
Citizenship 0%
Integrity, Conduct, Respect

5. Late Work Policy
I do not take points off for late work, but do make a note of it to track work habits.
If a student regularly turns in late work, the following interventions will be applied:
student conference with the teacher
or phone call home and/or parent/student conference
student may be assigned lunch detention and/or 7th period
All unit assignments must be turned in before the end of the unit in order to receive credit.

6. Assessment Policy Assessments are taken to show student learning.
Study guides are given out a week in advance of the test.
I allow and encourage retakes to show mastery of learning.
Retakes and assessments measure the same learning standard, but are different tests.
Learning is not an option so I will insist on retakes until the student has met the learning target. This may require after school support.
Students can earn up to 100% on a retake and all students are welcome to retake an assessment if they choose to.
Students must complete additional study work before a retake.

7. Language Arts Common Core State Standards Reading Literature
Reading Informational Text
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language (vocab and grammar)

8. Reading Reader’s Workshop – Student Choice Courage to be an Individual
Dystopia
Nonfiction

9. Writing Major Papers Writer’s Workshop Narrative Explanatory
Argumentative
Research
Memoir (narrative)
Photo Essay (explanatory)
Book Reviews (argument)
Poetry

10. Vocabulary and Grammar
Vocabulary is a weekly event. Grammar will be embedded into our reading & writing units of study.

11. What can parents do to help?
Make sure students have a homework routine for after school.
Make sure students are reading & writing regularly, hopefully for enjoyment too.
Read and write with your student.
Listen to audio books.
Join or start a book or writing club.
Visit the library often.
Have discussions with your kids about what they are learning in the classroom.
Check Family Access often with your student.
Check teacher websites regularly.
Communicate with teachers about concerns.
Encourage/require your student to attend 7th period if they need or want extra help.

12. What can parents do to help?
Make sure students have a homework routine for after school
Make sure students are reading & writing regularly, hopefully for enjoyment too
Have discussions with your kids about what they are learning in the classroom
Check Family Access often with your student
Be sure students are using their planners
Sign up for my Remind messages
Check teacher websites regularly
Communicate with teachers about concerns
Encourage/require your student to attend 7th period or peer tutoring if they need or want extra help

13. Questions?

14. Thank you for being here!