Week of 10-24-22
ELA 6
Essential Question: What are some of the challenges and triumphs of growing up?
Students will:
- Present as a group their non-fiction narrative and use checklist items to evaluate.
- Learn the functions of phrases and clauses
- Learn the three types of sentences and the five sentence patterns
- Close read their independent reading selection and write about it.
- Write a nonfiction narrative related to the EQ
- Create an essay on the Bill of Rights
ELA 7
Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?
Students will:
- Present a panel discussion related to the following question:
- What new knowledge or skills can you learn from someone of a different generation?
- Close read their independent reading selection and write about it.
- Review our syntax chart - terms and functions
- Write a nonfiction narrative related to the EQ
- Create an essay on the Bill of Rights
ELA 8
Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?
Students will:
- Create an essay that examines the theme “My Pledge to Our Veterans”
- Submit essay to Patriot’s Pen VFW Essay Contest on 10/28
- Create an essay on the Bill of Rights
- Close read their independent reading selection and write about it.
- Write a nonfiction narrative related to the EQ
Week of 10-17-22
ELA 6
Essential Question: What are some of the challenges and triumphs of growing up?
Students will:
- Present as a group their non-fiction narrative and use checklist items to evaluate.
- Preview the selections in the independent reading portion of the unit and discuss how they relate to the EQ and unit topic
- Quiz on pronouns; noun and pronoun vocabulary
- Learn the function of the parts of speech
ELA 7
Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?
Students will:
- Present a panel discussion related to the following question:
- What new knowledge or skills can you learn from someone of a different generation?
- Analyze the text, assign roles, and plan the discussion.
- review requirements, fine-tune the content and brush up on presentation techniques.
- Present as a group their non-fiction narrative and use checklist items to evaluate.
- Quiz on pronouns; noun and pronoun vocabulary
- Review the function of the parts of speech
ELA 8
Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?
Students will:
- Create a visual poster for the Halloween Hustle
- Quiz on pronouns; noun and pronoun vocabulary
- Review the function of the parts of speech
- Create an essay that examines the theme “My Pledge to Our Veterans”
- Submit essay to Patriot’s Pen VFW Essay Contest on 10/28
- To improve students’ academic performance
- To instill students with intrinsic motivation to learn
- To assist my students to reach their academic and behavioral goals
- To contribute to the teaching and achieving of Common Core Standards for ELA
- To develop students’ Catholic faith
- To develop well-rounded students: including physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally
- To develop thinking skills
- To promote good mental health in students
Goal The goal of the Pre-K–12 English Language Arts program is to create literate, thoughtful communicators, capable of controlling language effectively as they negotiate an increasingly complex and information-rich world. Students will refine specific skills and strategies in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing and will use these skills and strategies widely as tools for learning and reflection. Exploring a variety of texts, students will understand and appreciate language and literature as catalysts for deep thought and emotion. Enduring Understandings • Language is a powerful tool for expressing ideas, beliefs, and feelings. • Knowledge of language facilitates thought. • Readers, listeners, and viewers continually develop and apply strategies to construct meaning from increasingly complex and challenging texts. • Writers and speakers strategically use language to communicate for a variety of purposes. • Individuals need advanced literacy skills to participate actively and successfully in today’s demanding, information-based society. • Literature reveals the complexities of the world and human experience.
- What do you believe about education? Education is an ever changing world due to the fast pace of society.
- What purpose does education serve in bettering society? The purpose of education is to develop well-rounded individuals who are ready to tackle the challenges of the world.
- Do you believe all students can learn? When students are given the right tools, they are all able to learn.
- What goals do you have for your students? My goal is to enable all of my students with the strategies to become lifelong learners and problem solvers.
- What goals do you have for yourself? As a lifelong learner, I continue to grow alongside my students and to develop new teaching strategies to help my students become successful citizens.
- Do you abide by certain standards? The Catholic Common Core Standards are the learning standards I use to guide my students to become successful citizens.
- What does it take to be a good teacher? Being a good teacher takes dedication to learning the craft of teaching and adapting your teaching to the needs of your students. Also, to be willing to learn from the students who are learning from you.
- How do you incorporate new techniques, activities, curriculum, and technology into your teaching? I like to take opportunities to develop my professional skills and learn about new strategies and resources that could help my students become successful adults.
Education is an ever-changing world due to the fast pace of society, and as a teacher, I am tasked to develop well-rounded students who are ready to tackle the challenges of the world. As an educator, I work hard to provide students with the tools they need to become lifelong learners. As a lifelong learner, I continue to grow alongside my students and to develop new teaching strategies to help my students become successful citizens as guided by the Catholic Common Core Standards of English. Being a good teacher means adapting your teaching to the needs of your students and to be willing to learn from those students learning from you. In order to succeed at this, I take every opportunity I am given to develop my teaching skills and hone my craft.