Our Curriculum:
Grade Breakdown:
Homework 15% Classwork 25% Assessments 60%
Writer's Notebook
Stems
MAC 100 Words
Use Spelling City to help you study
After every review unit on Stems, there will be a spelling test assessing on average 15 words
Six Traits
You will be assessed on all your writing based on the 6 Traits of Writing:
Ideas
Organization
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Voice
Conventions
Copy of images (from Kristina Smekens)
Types of Writing
Paragraph writing will help you organize your thoughts into a coherent, well structured paragraph. Follow this outline for help.
Sentence writing will help you construct well organized simple, compound and complex sentences. (You will review parts of speech for this unit)
Narrative
Persuasive
Expository
Public Speaking
You will study a variety of famous speeches from history and understand their importance to making a good speech. In addition, you will then practice your public speaking skills in the form of three speeches.
Homework 15% Classwork 25% Assessments 60%
Writer's Notebook
- You will need this with you everyday in class. It will hold all your notes, stems, brainstorming list, quickwrites, and spelling words.
- This will go back and forth between home and school. If you happen to forget it at home or in your locker, you can still take notes, etc in class and add them later to your notebook.
Stems
- Every week you will have a list of 10 new stems words to learn
- On each week's quiz, there will be some review stems. Make sure you study which definition goes with each stem every week!
- After every four units, you will have a review test that will cover every stem learned up to that time
- Study for all your Stems quizzes and tests on Quizlet!
- Need this week's stems list? Click on the correct link:
- These websites will help you find example words for your stems:
- http://www.morewords.com/
- http://www.affixes.org/
- http://wordinfo.info/
- https://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html
- http://www.prefixsuffix.com/rootsearch.php?navblks=1011000
- http://dictionary.reference.com/
- http://www.virtualsalt.com/roots.htm
- http://stemwords.com/
MAC 100 Words
Use Spelling City to help you study
After every review unit on Stems, there will be a spelling test assessing on average 15 words
Six Traits
You will be assessed on all your writing based on the 6 Traits of Writing:
Ideas
Organization
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Voice
Conventions
Copy of images (from Kristina Smekens)
Types of Writing
Paragraph writing will help you organize your thoughts into a coherent, well structured paragraph. Follow this outline for help.
Sentence writing will help you construct well organized simple, compound and complex sentences. (You will review parts of speech for this unit)
Narrative
Persuasive
Expository
Public Speaking
You will study a variety of famous speeches from history and understand their importance to making a good speech. In addition, you will then practice your public speaking skills in the form of three speeches.