LA Mrs. Sheehan

Welcome to Team 8B Language Arts

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Students are required to keep 2 notebooks.  One contains daily writing (at least 5 pages per week) and one contains class notes and vocabulary.  You should see these notebooks at home as all work cannot be completed during class time.  They must be writing at home and in school.  Students are also required to have a novel at all times and read for homework 30 minutes per night.  The nightly reading is documented in the student planner recording title, author, and pages read.  I do not require that this be signed, but if you want to sign your student's planner that is fine. 

I check homework in planners on Mondays for the previous week's reading.

Students are required to enter one vocabulary word per day in their vocabulary notebook.  These words are chosen by the students from their novels.  If students are not finding words in their novels they can come from class lessons, conversation,  news, etc.  We also do a daily quote at the start of class to encourage the students to interpret text and make connections.  A daily analogy is on the board to help the students see relationships between words. 

Weeks of  1/5/09 - 1/9/09

We are waiting to hear from the Garde Theater as far as rescheduling the performance that was cancelled.

 Groups 27 & 29 notebook requirements:

  5 new vocabulary words, Response to Literature, Response to Art, Quote of the week, Spell Study.  We are reading an article in class together, annotating it, and responding to questions.   

Group 30

5 new vocabulary words, response to literature, spell study.  We also will be reading and responding to news article 

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