tissuescopy paperbinder paperband-aidswhite board markers [black ink is most useful!]page protectors/plastic sleevesblack dry erase markers [fine tip and broad tip both useful]gallon size Ziplock bags writing paper, stationery, note cardspostage stampsblue masking tapecleaning wipeshand sanitizerOffice Depot or Staples gift cards

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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. HATCHERCHATCHER@FCUSD.ORG

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

Text in a bullying concern for maximum confidentiality

Text to 916-93BULLY (916-932-8559)

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

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