ELA 9/23 – 9/27

Happy Last Week of September! This week we will be focusing on Theme (topic, main idea and theme), Conflict and using RACES for our writing.  We will be pairing these literary elements with short stories, graphic organizers and reading response questions.  Once we...

ELA: September 16-20

This week we are continuing our review of Characterization and Summary Writing using short stories written by Gary Soto that we began reading on Friday.  We completed our benchmark exams and are looking forward to finding our steady groove in the classroom. Hope to...

Week of September 9

Welcome to our first full week back to school!  This week, in all classes, we will be finishing up our Get to Know You activities. We will also have our benchmark ELA test Tuesday and Wednesday.  These tests will not count as a grade, but rather will be used as a tool...

WELCOME BACK TO ELA!

Welcome back to ELA! As we find our groove of being back to school, this week we will focus on some getting to know you activities and our rules and procedures.  We will be discussing the class format and the novels we will be reading and getting back into the swing...

ELA 5/28-5/31

This week, we wrap up our tests and essays on our novels and move on to review for the final exam.  Our final consists of vocabulary words from throughout they year, grammar mistakes, literary elements, reading comprehension and an essay.  We will complete as much of...

ELA 5/20-5/22

Being that we finished the books last week, we will be taking a test this week on the novels in class.  This will consist of reading comprehension questions about the book and a theme essay we will discuss in class beforehand.  The test will take 1-2 days and then we...