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Ms. Claudio

7th grade

ELA

Nick Sacco

Junior

High School

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About Ms. Claudio

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• This year marks my 36th year of teaching
• I grew up in North Bergen; I am an alumni of Robert Fulton and NBHS
• I have 3 kids of my own.
• I began teaching in 1990, first at Horace Mann, and then I moved over to Robert Fulton in 2005, and now I'm thrilled to be here at NSJHS.

Communication:

Email: nclaudio@northbergen.k12.nj.us

Important information posted on the webpage: Nick Sacco Junior High School/Staff/Nancy Claudio

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text @294b6e

to the number 81010

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Materials we will be using:

• My Perspectives workbook
• Novels:
• A Long Walk to Water novel
• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

Some Websites:

• Quizizz
• EdPuzzle
• Quizlet
• Kahoot
• IXL
• Blooket
• Savvas

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GRADING POLICY

• 35% TESTS/QUIZZES/PROJECTS
• 25% CLASSWORK:

check/check minus, collected occasionally and given number grade

• 25% CLASS PARTICIPATION

Attendance, preparedness, works independently, and participates in class and group discussions, rubric out of 10 points

• 15% HOMEWORK: Homework needs to be turned in on time; checks and graded IXL 3 per week are mandatory.

Class Participation Rubric

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• Promptness and attendance

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• Level of engagement in class

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• Attitude/behavior

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• Preparation

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• 10 points: graded bi-monthly

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Work must be handed in on time; if there are extenuating circumstances, email me and we will discuss a plan; otherwise, late submissions will lose points or students will be given a zero

Extra help is on Mondays after school.

If a student is going to stay, they must inform me in the morning and have a note from a parent with directions on how they are getting home.

(Bus or if a parent will pick them up)

Welcome to 7th Grade!

The seventh-grade English/Language Arts course provides a balance of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills essential for success in the 21st century.

• The seventh-grade reading course teaches essential comprehension skills and strategies while students read closely and cite evidence from grade-level fiction and nonfiction to support an analysis of what the materials say.�
• Students apply skills they learned in earlier grades to make sense of longer, more challenging books and articles. This includes learning about how authors try to influence readers and then find reasons to support their ideas.�

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• Students develop a rich vocabulary of complex and sophisticated words and use them to speak and write more precisely and coherently. �
• Students will work on improving skills necessary for formal presentations and develop a range of broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills.�
• Students will work together, express and listen carefully to ideas, integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate what they hear, use media and visual displays strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.�

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• The seventh-grade writing curriculum follows the Writer’s Workshop model, where students progress through the writing process as they plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish their writing. (No ChatGPT or AI-generated work will be accepted.)�

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• These writing types include arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives. �

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• Students are required to draw upon and write about evidence from literary and informational texts.�

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Expectations:

• The students are required to come prepared to class every day.�
• They are expected to complete all class and homework assignments on time.�
• If they are absent, they are responsible for making up the work.�
• They are expected to participate in class.�

Materials:

• We will have access to Chromebooks, and most of our work will be done through Google Docs.�
• Students will still be required to bring a notebook to class.�
• Students should have index cards, pens, pencils and highlighters�

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Text: We will be using a combination of textbooks as well as online resources.

Parents:

Please be sure to check parent portal

and Google Classroom daily.

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Contact the office for

ID and passwords for portal

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Update parent information in real time.

Please email me or send a message on Remind.