Transcript Writing City

The mission of the Gulfport School District is to inspire each student to become a
problem solver, lifelong learner, and productive member of society.
6th Grade Language Arts
Mrs. Marie Parker, Ed. S.
Gulfport Central Middle School
Room 211
Welcome
Gulfport Central Middle
School
6th Grade Language Arts
Mrs. Marie Parker, Ed. S.
Vision
Academic
Integrity
Class Core Rules
Class Consequences
Grading
Scale
Class
Material
Student Accountability
Objectives
Bell Work
Journaling
Note Taking
Teacher Mini
Lessons
Class Work
Writing Center Rotations
Test/Exams
Projects
Make-up Policy
Contact Information
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National Board Certified Teacher
19 years of teaching experience
Teacher Certification (K-8)
Endorsements: Educational Leadership, Ed. S.
Bachelor of Science-Elementary Education-The University of
Southern Mississippi
• Master of Education-Elementary Education-William Carey College
• Specialist of Education - Educational Leadership and AdministrationThe University of Southern Mississippi
• Outside of school, my focus is on my own family. My husband,
Ronald, and I have been married for 17 years and we have two
marvelous, intelligent daughters: Raina (15) and Reann (12).
“Writing is lifework, not deskwork.”
(Calkins, 1990)
• Within our classroom “Writing City,” my personal
goal is to elevate students’ capacity to
communicate to help them learn more about
communicating effectively and powerfully to
diverse audiences for a variety of purposes.
• In order to achieve this goal, students will be
immersed with explicit, direct instruction that is
embedded in the context of their own real writing.
• Students will be encouraged to express their
own ideas verbally and in written form.
• Plagiarism, which is cheating, will not be
permitted.
• At the 6th grade Nathan Walker Academy,
which embodies academic integrity,
students will be motivated to create original
works.
All students must:
• Be punctual and bring all supplies to class
• Keep hands, feet, and belongings to
himself/herself
• Remain seated unless otherwise instructed
• Raise your hand to speak unless permission is
granted for conversation during learning centers
• Follow directions
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Step 1. Warning-Behavior Card signed
Step 2. Parent Contact
Step 3. Time Out
Step 4. After-school detention (Friday 3:00-4:00)
Step 5. Office referral
(Major offenses may go immediately to Step 5 and
repeat violators will be referred to an intervention
team)
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Class Helper
Stickers
Pride Parties
Healthy Snack
Free Choice Centers
93-100
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85-92
76-84
70-75
0-69
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(1) 5 Subject Notebook
Pencils, red/blue/black pens
Glue
Markers, crayons, colored pencils
Loose leaf paper
Scissors
• This class is a study of the writing process
and English grammar. Students will work
individually and in groups to compose and
edit different types of text.
• Students will continue to practice and build
on their knowledge of the parts of speech,
punctuation, sentence composition, and
grade-level appropriate spelling.
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or exchange
ideas effectively.
a. Use and reflect on an appropriate composing process (e.g. planning, drafting,
revising, editing, publishing) to express, communicate, evaluate, or exchange ideas
with a focus on texts of increasing complexity and length. (DOK 3)
1) Planning - Plan for composing using a variety of strategies (e.g. brainstorming,
drawing, graphic organizers, peer discussion, reading, or viewing)
2) Drafting - Draft with increasing fluency
3) Revising - Revise selected drafts by adding, elaborating, deleting, and
rearranging text based on feedback on teacher/peer feedback, writer’s checklist, or
rubric
4) Editing - Edit/proofread drafts to ensure standard usage, mechanics, spelling, and
varied sentence structure
5) Publishing/Sharing - Share writing with others formally and informally using a
variety of media
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or
exchange ideas effectively.
c. Compose narrative text utilizing effective organization and vivid word choice
containing multiple events with specific details. (DOK 3)
1) Stories or retellings
2) Narrative poems
3) Biographies and autobiographies
4. Apply standard English.
a. Use Standard English grammar to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Nouns (e.g. singular, plural [including irregular forms], common, proper, singular
possessive, plural possessive, concrete, abstract, compound [one word: bookcase;
two or more words: prime number/ Yellowstone National Park/ George
Washington: hyphenated words: editor-in-chief]); predicate nominatives; direct
and indirect objects
2) Verbs, helping verbs, irregular, linking, transitive, and intransitive
3) Verb Tense (e.g. conjugation and purpose for present, past, future, present perfect,
future perfect)
4) Subject verb agreement in sentences containing collective nouns, indefinite
pronouns, compound subjects, and prepositional phrases separating subjects
and verbs
5) Prepositions
6) Interjections
4. Apply standard English.
b. Use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) End punctuation (e.g. period, question mark, exclamation point)
2) Periods in common abbreviations (e.g. titles of address, days of the week, months
of the year)
3) Commas (e.g. dates, series, addresses, greetings and closings of letters, quotations,
introductory prepositional phrases, appositives, nonessential appositive phrases,
interrupters, introductory clauses, and nonessential clauses)
4) Capitalization (e.g. first word in a sentence, proper nouns, proper adjectives, first
word in greetings and closings of friendly and business letters, the pronoun “I”,
days of the week, month of the year, holidays, titles, initials)
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or
exchange ideas effectively.
d. Compose informational text clearly expressing a main idea with supporting
details, including but not limited to the following: text containing
chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, or informal
problem/solution, procedural, order of importance. (DOK 3)
1) Reports
2) Letters
3) Functional texts
4) Presentations
5) Poems
6) Essays
4. Apply standard English.
b. Use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Articles and coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
2) Adjectives (e.g. descriptive, comparative, superlative, predicate
adjectives, nominative, objective, reflexive, possessive)
3) Pronouns (e.g. subject, object, reflexive, singular, singular possessive,
possessive, plural possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative,
indefinite)
4) Pronoun-antecedent agreement (number and gender)
4. Apply standard English.
b. Use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Apostrophes (possessives; contractions)
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or
exchange ideas effectively.
b. Compose descriptive texts using sensory details and vivid language.
(DOK 3)
e. Compose persuasive text clearly expressing a main idea with supporting
details, utilizing effective word choice and organization for a specific
purpose and audience. (DOK 3)
1) Letters
2) Speeches
3) Advertisement
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or
exchange ideas effectively.
f. Compose text of a variety of modes based on inquiry and research.
(DOK 4)
1) Generate questions.
2) Locate sources (e.g. books, interviews, Internet, reference materials, online data bases) and gather relevant information from multiple sources).
3) Identify and paraphrase important information from sources.
4) Compare and contrast important findings and select sources to
support central ideas, concepts, and themes.
5) Present the results using a variety of communication techniques.
6) Reflect on and evaluate the process.
4. Apply standard English.
a. Use Standard English grammar to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Adverbs (e.g. double negatives, comparative forms)
b. Use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Semicolons/Colons (e.g. compound sentences)
2) Quotation marks (e.g. quotations, titles of poems, titles of songs, titles of
short stories, titles of chapters, titles of magazine articles)
3) Underlining/italics (titles of books, movies, plays, and television shows)
4) Colons (e.g. time, before lists introduced by independent clauses, and
business letters)
5) Analyze the structure of sentences (e.g. simple including those with
compound subjects and/or compound predicates, compound sentences
including those with compound subjects and/or compound predicates,
and complex sentences including dependent and independent clauses).
6) Compose sentences (e.g. simple including those with compound subjects and/or
compound predicates, compound sentences including those with compound subjects
and/ or compound predicates, and complex sentences including dependent and
independent clauses).
7) Avoid sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices.
3. Express, communicate, evaluate, or
exchange ideas effectively.
c. Compose narrative text utilizing effective organization and vivid word choice
containing multiple events with specific details. (DOK 3)
1) Plays
2) Video Narratives
3) Power Point Presentation
4. Apply standard English.
b. Use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit. (DOK 1)
1) Produce legible text.
2) Analyze sentences containing descriptive adjectives, adverbs,
prepositional phrases functioning as adjectives and adverbs, appositive
phrases and modifiers, adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
3) Compose sentences using descriptive adjectives, adverbs, prepositional
phrases functioning as adjectives and adverbs, appositive
phrases and modifiers, adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
• Students will be expected to complete a bell work
assignment each day upon their entry into the
class.
• The bell work assignment will be set up in the
format of MCT 2. The work will be collected in a
notebook and will count as a daily test grade each
term.
• Students are responsible for taking accurate notes
and may use these bell work assignments as a self
made study guide for tests and exams.
• Students will be authentically engaged in a journaling
activity of their choice everyday.
• Journaling is a special time for students because they will
be in charge of selecting a topic of interest to them that is
related to other content areas in the curriculum.
• Five students will share a journal piece each day at the end
of class during share time.
• Students will also receive a daily grade per term for their
completion of journaling activities and active participation
during share time.
• The teacher will teach a mini lesson each
day on objectives outlined in the
curriculum.
• Students are responsible for taking accurate
notes and studying them for upcoming tests
and exams.
• Class work will consist of the writing centers that
students will rotate to each day. Students will have
experiences writing a variety of literary genres
throughout the year.
• Each writing center will have the directions
clearly labeled and the work will go in the
students writing folder.
• The finished, polished, published products will
serve as assessment grades and will be displayed
in a prominent location for all to view and delight
in the students’ understanding of the writing
process.
• Students need to review their notebooks each
night to be prepared for weekly mixed practice
tests that will be given on each Tuesday.
• The district will administer a mixed practice test
every 4 ½ weeks and a 9 week assessment that
will serve as an exam grade for each term.
• Students will be expected to complete writing projects that
may require additional time at home to complete.
• Rest assured, in the event students do have an assigned
project, you will be given a rubric of expectations and
notice of the deadline in plenty of time to do a tremendous
job on the assignment.
• Class participation is essential to students learning,
practicing, and passing this course. If a student is absent,
the guidelines in the Gulfport School District Handbook
will be applied. It is up to the student to meet with me to
discuss a feasible solution to completing the missed work.
• If you have any further questions,
comments, or concerns, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
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Gulfport Central Middle School
Nathan Walker 6th Grade Academy
[email protected]
schoolrack.com/marie_parker
(228) 870-1035