• Grading Policy (approximate percentages)

    • Summative Assessments (Tests, Projects, Major Writing Assignments)  45%
    • Formative Assignnments (Daily Tasks, Classwork, Quizzes, Quickwrites)  40%
    • Homework 10%
    • Citizenship (Class Participation, Group Participation, Preparedness) 5%

  • Required Materials

    • Folder/Notebook or binder
    • Pen or pencil (only blue or black ink)
    • Silent Reading Book
    • Charged Chromebook

  • Units of Study

    Unit 1: Reading Closely 

    • inference
    • central idea
    • summarizing
    • text evidence

    Unit 2: Genre and Fiction

    Unit 3: Children of War

    Unit 4: Features of Nonfiction

    • text structure
    • text graphics
    • finding evidence

    Unit 5: Understanding Perspective

    • author's point of view
    • persuasive techniques
    • evaluating sources
    • author's claims

    Other topics throughout units: grammar, writing, vocabulary workshop, current events

    Possible units??  Novel Study, Oral Tradition

  • Textbooks

    • Pearson: My Perspectives 

  • Novels

    • A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
    • Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
    • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
    • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
    • Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
    • Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
    • Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
    • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 
    • Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix 

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