Welcome to Middle School Language Arts!!
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TUTORING TIMES:
Mondays - 7:30 - 8:00 a.m.
Fridays - 2:45 - 3:30
READING Resources:
Cognitive Reading Strategies - Worksheet
Reading Strategies Handout
Elements of Fiction Powerpoint
GRAMMAR Resources:
Subject and Predicate Powerpoint
Nouns and Pronoun Powerpoint
Verb Powerpoint
Adjective Powerpoint
Adverb Powerpoint
Adverb, Adjective, and Appositive Phrases
WRITING RESOURCES
To look at examples of excellent and poor quality essays, please take advantage of the PHschool.com website. Here are the codes to see the writing portion:
6th grade code = eak-6001
7th grade code = ebk-7001
8th grade code = eck-8001
OUTLINE EXAMPLE of Persuasive essay
PROJECT RESOURCES
MONTHLY - ARTICLE ANALYSIS OUTLINE - Please remember that the articles must be current (more or less within the month that the essay is due).
All classes must turn in ONE article analysis essay prior to January 30th.
EXTRA credit:
A.R. Reading Points Extra Credit - Students can earn extra credit by reading books and achieving AR points. A student can earn 10 points on their lowest test grade for every 15 AR points earned. These AR points must be from books that are at the Middle School level. AR records will be checked in order to make sure all points have come from Middle School leveled books. This can be used THREE TIMES per six weeks.
RESOURCES
COMMUNITY SERVICE LOGS
COMMUNITY SERVICE REFLECTION SHEETS
Caught Ya Resources
Caught Ya Corrections 1-51
RESEARCH PAPER RESOURCES
RESEARCH METHODS PACKET
MLA GUIDELINES -
FINDING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Finding articles in scholarly journals takes patience and time. If you have these attributes, you will most likely find more than enough information for your paper. The following links will take you to scholarly journals. Search for your topic (make sure you spell everything correctly). Then you will need to skim articles to see if it will work for you. Look for FULL TEXT articles only.
The following two links will take you to websites that will allow you to search for hundreds of articles. Not all the articles you find will allow you to see the full text because you must have a subscription to some journals. It doesn't hurt to try.
Please understand that you will have to darken the doors of a public library to secure the resources that you need. There are many around town. They have encyclopedias, computers, internet access, newspaper and magazines, and books! The website for the Corpus Christi Public Library is below.
Corpus Christi Public Library
Citation help - citationmachine.net/index2.php - use this link to assist you in making your bibliography page. Make sure to format your bibliography page exactly like the example I showed you!
FINAL PAPER RUBRIC
2011-2012 Classgrams
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