Wood

7th Grade ACLA

 
Here is what our week looks like:

Monday:

1. Media Center Orientation

2. Begin ELA County Pre-Test

Tuesday:

1. Pre-Test Continued

2. Journal Prep-I will grade a journal of your choice this week!

Thursday:

1. GAWP #2

2. SAT Vocab Quiz

3. Summer Reading Group Presentations

4. Writer's Workshop: Personal Essay

Friday:

1. Journal #6

2. Writer's Workshop: Personal Essay

8th Grade Week of 8/29

 
 
Here is what our week looks like:

Monday:

1. Media Center Orientation

2. Begin ELA County Pre-Test

Tuesday:

1. Pre-Test Continued

2. Journal Prep-I will grade a journal of your choice this week!

Wednesday:

1. GAWP #2

2. SAT Vocab Quiz

3. Summer Reading Group Presentations

4. Writer's Workshop: Personal Essay

Friday:

1. Journal #6

2. Writer's Workshop: Personal Essay

Important Upcoming Dates!

7th Grade: Summer Reading Book Shares-9/1

                SAT Vocab Quiz #1-9/1

                Independent Study Due-10/13

8th Grade: Summer Reading Book Share-8/31

                SAT Vocab Quiz #1-8/31

***All classes will have a Pre-Assessment next Monday!***
***All classes will have Media Center Orientations next Tuesday!***

8th Grade Week of 8/22

 We began our week with a review of Parts of Speech and the Writing Process.  The notes are below if you need them!

Tuesday:

1. Journal #4

2. Introduction to Writing Genres: Personal Essay/Memoir Download Writing Genres Memoir and Personal Essay

3. Reading of "My First Free Summer"

Wednesday:

1. SAT Vocabulary in Context

2. GAWP #1-Sentence Structure

3. Writing Domains

4. Writer's Workshop

Friday:

1. Journal #5

2. Writer's Workshop

7th ACLA Week of 8/23

 We began our week with a bit of reviewing.  If you need the notes they are posted in the previous post :) here is what we have in store for the week:

Tuesday:

1. Journal #4

2. Introduction to Personal Essays and Memoirs Download Writing Genres Memoir and Personal Essay

3. Reading of "Names/Nombres"

Thursday:

1. SAT- Vocabulary in Context

2. GAWP #1-Sentence Structure and Imitation

2. Image Grammar-Brushstroke One: The Participle

Download ImageGrammarMann[1]   Download Image Grammar Cloze Notes 1

3. Pre-Writing: The Personal Essay/Memoir

Friday:

1. Journal #5

2. Writer's Workshop

2.

Review Notes

We did a bit of reviewing on Monday!  Here are the notes if you need them :)

Download Parts-of-speech-review-1

Download The-writing-process

Independent Study-ACLA

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I hope you are all excited to start your independent study projects!  Here are some helpful handouts as you make your decisions :)

Bloom's Balls:

Download Bloom Balls Instruction

Download Bloom Balls

Bloom's Cube:

Download Bloom's Cube

Literary Magazine:

Download Novelproject

Welcome Back!

 

Welcome to Language Arts!

I am so excited to begin the new school year!  You will find all assignments and updates on this blog throughout the school year. Please make sure to use the tabs to the right for your class information :)

Here are a few things about me: I am happily married, I have two dogs, I love cycling, I am a licensed skydiver,  I LOVE UGA (Go Dawgs!), and I strongly believe that reading and writing are the basis for a well-round education!

Please use this site as a resource to your academic success!  Please feel free to contact me or introduce yourself here or through e-mail at wendy.wood@cobbk12.org.

The following are supplies that you will need for AC Language Arts:

• 3 ring binder
• 4 dividers
• pencils and blue/black ink pens
• loose leaf paper
• colored pencils by request
• composition notebook