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WELCOME TO CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL I hope your family had an enjoyable summer. Please save the following information. -3-Ring Binder -Dividers & loose leaf paper -2 paper grocery bags -Highlighter- -Central Assignment Notebook -1 shirt size gift box - box of Kleenex -Blue / black pens, NO GEL PENS -2 9*12 pieces of light-weight cardboard 1 new floppy disk
HOMEWORK
POLICY Your child will have some homework almost every night. It is your child’s responsibility to get all late/missing/make-up work in by the Friday of each week. Our House has a homework hot line which is updated daily by 3:00P.M (970-3253). Please have a pencil and paper ready when you call to check on your student’s daily assignments. You may also leave a message for the team teachers after the homework update is given.
If I have your
e-mail address, you will receive your child’s grade book information
every Thursday.
I have found
that this is a very effective way for you and your student to monitor
his/her progress. I
also post grades in the classroom by students’ ID numbers every
Thursday. I strongly
encourage your student to take an active role in assuming responsibility
for his/her progress. This
will also help to prepare him/her for the high school experience.
EACH STUDENT RECEIVES A CALENDAR ON THE FIRST SCHOOL DAY OF EVERY
MONTH. IT SHOWS ASSIGNMENTS,
DUE DATES, QUIZZES/TESTS, AND FIELD TRIPS OR SPECIAL EVENTS.
YOU ARE WELCOME TO HAVE AN EXTRA ONE BROUGHT HOME. WEB SITE
I have created a web site for 8-B Language Arts. It contains important information such as monthly calendars, unit information, valuable web sites, updates, and student monthly newsletters. I hope that you and your child will find it useful. Site address: Waukesha.k12.us.wi SKILLS ENRICHMENT or “learning how to learn” Skills enrichment is not a study hall. It is an active learning time during which students will have study skills ( organization, note taking, test taking, and reading strategies, etc.) taught, be able to get extra help in courses, complete make-up work, and pursue special areas of interest such as music, art, gifted & talented enrichment. Students’ use of this time is individualized and closely monitored. This is also an enrichment time for the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concept Examination. G & T students will be provided with many opportunities during the course of the school year. All experiences will be in place of regular classroom work. Documentation of activities will be kept in your child’s G & T folder, which I will share with you at conferences. Our goal is a successful
school year. I am looking
forward to working with you and your child.
Please feel free to call me if you have any concerns or questions.
Thank you in advance for your support! CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thurs. Nov 10 3:30-8:00 Tues. Nov. 15 3:30-8:00 Wed. Feb 22 3:30-8:30
EARLY RELEASE DATES—Students dismissed at 1:06 P.M.
Monday Sept. 26th Tuesday Dec. 6th Thursday April 26th LAST DAY OF SCHOOL: Wednesday, June 8th Unit Outline: SEMESTER
I - Spelling: 10 week unit August:
Life Map
·
Students
create their own life map ·
Informative
speech ·
Write
a 1st person narrative 1.
review writing process 2.
focus on grammar skills - WKCE September:
Native American Literature ·
1st
American story tellers ·
Mythology
to modern literature ·
Multicultural
experience ·
Interdisciplinary
with social studies: “Nation
lost; nation won” ·
Practice
sentence combining and paragraph development - WKCE October:
Washington Irving ·
1st
Euro-American author ·
Classic
American tales ·
Compare/contrast
activities ·
Imaginative
writing ·
Short
answer exam - WKCE
- focus on command words
Book
report: Biography ·
master
writing dialogue form
WKCE Writing prompts
– practice the following: ·
Descriptive ·
Imaginative ·
Persuasive
FOCUS ON: 1.
grammar 2.
sentence combining 3.
ordering ideas 4.
relevant/irrelevant
ideas November:
Edgar Allan Poe ·
Introduction
to the American short story ·
Oral
interpretation - focus of 8th grade curriculum ·
Writing
on demand - WKCE ·
Mock
trial - honor students- persuasive
experience Structured
grammar WKCE ·
subject/verb ·
sentence
fragment ·
run-on
sentence ·
paragraph
development December:
A
Christmas Memory ·
Descriptive
writing/sensory images - WKCE ·
Interviewing
techniques ·
WKCE focus 1.
paragraph development 2.
grammar 3.
sentence combining 4.
sensory images 5.
organization January:
NOVEL:
A Gathering of Old Men
or The
Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1964 ·
Understand
the novel genre ·
compare/contrast
- WKCE ·
Impromptu
writing - WKCE
·
Essay
questions - WKCE ·
Reading
for comprehension - WKCE
SEMESTER
II: Focus on vocabulary units February: African American Literature Unit
·
Oral
interpretation – 8th grade focus ·
Library
research : informative speech ·
Multicultural
experience ·
Myth,
poetry, short story, non-fiction, music, art Writing
on demand - WKCE March:
Mark Twain ·
American
short story/novel (honors) ·
Persuasive
essay - WKCE ·
Use
of dialect ·
Interdisciplinary
with social studies - Civil War/slavery ·
Short
answer exam - WKCE
- focus on command words
Grammar
- direct instruction: Parts
of Speech April:
The Diary of Anne Frank / Holocaust ·
Drama
genre ·
Oral
Interpretation - focus of 8th grade curriculum ·
Propaganda
and persuasive strategies ·
Essay
response - WKCE ·
Writing
on demand - WKCE May:
Poetry ·
Interdisciplinary
with Art ·
Imaginative
writing ·
Sensory
imagery ·
Parental
involvement June:
Hispanic Literature ·
Stories,
myths, poetry, culture, art ·
Emphasis:
What is an American? Who
is/was the immigrant? ·
Multicultural
experience ·
Cross
cultural involvement ·
Importance
of traditions ·
Writing
on demand: informational
essay & persuasive essay
- WKCE
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