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GRADE EIGHT ENGLISH Mrs. HatcherThank you for any classroom donations:
Back-to-School Night
GRADE EIGHT ENGLISH2014-2015 COURSE DETAILS MRS. [email protected]
E-mail: It’s helpful if your student’s first and last name AND period number are in the subject line—thank you!
weekly work posted on Fridays for the upcoming week on my HOMEWORK post on SchoolWiresSchoolWires
* show respect and responsibility in all ways to all people, activities, ideas, and property.
* keep hands and feet to themselves.
* practice appropriate language and behavior in the classroom and in the halls. * bring and use expected materials for
class each day.
Please encourage students to know and follow classroom expectations
* raise a hand and wait to be recognized to speak or leave a seat.
* keep questions, comments, discussions, and actions on task and appropriate to the current class topic or activity.
* wait for me to tell them to pack up and dismiss them when class ends.
Please encourage students to know and follow classroom expectations
Life skills to develop
High school-ready scholars need
Personal responsibility
Time management skills
GRADING
Trimester grades have two weighted parts:
80% summative [tests, essays, projects and group performance]
20% formative [quizzes, classwork and homework].
REGARDING ASSIGNMENT GRADES
Fully-completed, on-time summative assignments [tests, essays, projects, but not classwork or homework] may be redone and resubmitted within one week in an effort to improve skills and grades.
Re-take and make-up work and arrangements will take place during homeroom.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
Critical thinking —not finding or memorizing the “right” answer, but carrying out a deep and carefully, clearly explained thinking processthinking process
Deep and close reading —with shorter texts or selected passages of longer texts, notice and make use of details in thinking processthinking process
Get the knowledge and tools to do this independently Build the stamina to do this frequently Develop the ability to do prolonged tasks Share with others in a scholarly fashion
21st CENTURY LEARNERS
Online discussion—Google Blogs? Submitting work electronically
Multimedia Word processing documents Using Chromebooks to create, share, collaborate
Accessing electronic reading materials Course materials on SchoolWires and at linked
locations online short stories and poems intended for an
adolescent audience videos New York Times articles, photos
Grade Eight Novel Possibilities As of August 2014 [updated list online]General/American Historical
Significance Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Nine Letters from Rifka The Contender Nothing But the Truth No More Dead Dogs Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Glory Field Goodbye, Vietnam
American Revolution/Colonial Period Time Enough for Drums Johnny Tremain Fever 1793 War Horse Woods Runner
Japanese Internment Camps, WWII, Holocaust
The Bomb Thin Wood Walls Yellow Star When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Behind the Bedroom Wall Willow Run Someone Named Eva A Boy No More A Boy at War Summer of My German Soldier Bat 6
Civil War/Slavery Forge Red Moon at Sharpsburg Iron Thunder Elijah of Buxton Chains
Thank you for any classroom donations: tissues copy paper binder paper band-aids white board markers [black ink is most useful!] page protectors/plastic sleeves black dry erase markers [fine tip and broad tip both useful] gallon size Ziplock bags writing paper, stationery, note cards postage stamps blue masking tape cleaning wipes hand sanitizer Office Depot or Staples gift cards
www.Donorschoose.org