7^th Grade Language Arts Newsletter

August/September

 

 

Dear Parents, Guardians, and Students,

Welcome to a new year at Church Hill Middle School! We look forward to working with you this year. We will periodically email a newsletter giving you a general overview of what is going on in our 7^th grade language arts classes. Hopefully, this information will be helpful to each of you. For more specific information, we encourage you to visit our classroom websites and check the calendars in students’ language arts binders.

 

Thank you,

Ginger Little

Michelle Harless

Rhonda Richards

 

 

 

We have started our weekly reading logs. This week students are responsible for reading 35 minutes outside of class and getting their log signed by an adult. Next week, they will be responsible for reading 50 minutes outside of class. This will be the amount that they will read weekly this year. Students can read anything that they would like for their log. Encourage your student to read a variety of things: newspapers, magazines, fictional books, and nonfiction books.

 

Dates to remember

August 25 Progress reports- Please sign and return

August 29 Final deadline for summer reading logs

September 15 Progress reports- Please sign and return

 

 

Some of the things we will be working on in August and September

· Prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin word roots

· Plot and conflict

· The writing process

· Formal vs. informal writing

· Alliteration

· Peer editing

· Point of view

· Subjects, predicates, and sentences

· Nouns

· Verbs

· We are also working with the social studies teachers and are planning some special activities to commemorate the 10^th anniversary of 9/11.