Writing and Grammar

Brain Research: Practice makes a better writer. Grammar and language are learned behaviors.

Procedures PowerPoint with Homework 1

Procedures for Class PowerPoint

Use your homework notebook--this should be the composition notebook--to write your responses to the questions or prompts.

Homework 1 Draw the Four Square Table in your homework notebook, then list three possibilities.

Brainstorm: FOOD



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Let's start this year by thinking about a topic everybody can connect to: FOOD. Let's brainstorm about food for just a minute.

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and then let's think about the issue of "Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World".
Notice that we've turned a big topic into an issue that can be analyzed and evaluated.

Student Blogging

Take a look at this blog: Waste Not, Want Not. What's your comment? Go ahead and post your own ideas or thoughts in the comments section of this blog. If that doesn't work, you can always write what you're thinking on paper and place it in the blog basket.

The Library and Computer Labs

The library is the hub of learning. When we visit the library, you are expected to check out a book that you will actually read.

When we go to a computer lab, you can expect to explore on-line activities including:

Interactive Achievement
Moby Max
Study Ladder
E-Media
Read.Write.Think.

Computers in school are for educational use.  

Read a book; write a blog.

Virginia Standards of Learning is about RIGOR in the Classroom.

Our learning will be guided by the Virginia Department of Education. Everything we do this year will be carefully planned and sequenced to encourage our success on the state test. Clicking here will take you directly to the DOE page for Students and Parents. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the state's requirements so you'll understand why we do what we do in the classroom. The state demands rigor, so we will practice rigor in the classroom. It is in our best interest to prepare for the SOL test a little bit each day so that there are no surprises at the end of the school year when students take the actual test.

Welcome to Seventh Grade English @ http://eng110htms.blogspot.com

Please copy the blog address. You will be expected to make a blog visit at least once a week.

Our Purpose
This is English class; we read and write daily.

You will need:
Blue or black pens, pencils, a working sharpener, loose-leaf paper, and a single subject notebook.

What Our Classroom Looks Like
Everybody is engaged. We are learning; our daily tasks are not about racing to see who can finish first. That is an elementary school practice. You are now in the middle of middle school.
When you finish an assignment or task, the appropriate question is “What’s next?” (not “I’m done.”) there’s always something more to read or write or revise or think about or discuss…English is a re-curs-ive subject: everything you've already learned still counts!

@  Grades will be earned and averaged when students

R participate in class or small group discussions,

R complete daily class work, tasks, and activities,

R complete and turn in homework  

R complete tests and major writing assignments,

R take responsibility for their actions and use of time.

“We cannot live for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us to our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects.”                                           -Herman Melville, American writer

You are here to achieve.

You are here to learn.

You are here to make gains.

You are here to show your academic strengths.

You are here to strengthen your academics. 

NNPS Grading Scale

A  90 – 100

B  89 – 80

C  79 – 70

D  69 – 60

F  59 and below