English Language Arts 7 Accelerated

2. English Language Arts 7Accelerated Marianne McMahon

3. Marianne McMahon Who am I? I love to read, swim, watch movies, and take the dogs to the park. Married, 3 dogs, 2 cats Born and raised overseas Met my husband and moved to AU Graduate of The Ohio State University (undergrad and grad)

4. Marianne McMahon Parent conferences: 799-4699 ext. 4302 Tami Taylor OR email me at: memcmahon@interact.ccsd.net

5. The best way to contact me is through email: • memcmahon@interact.ccsd.net I will send out periodic updates through email to keep you informed of how class is going, interesting occurrences, and major assignments. I will send home a hard copy of the email by request.

6. What is done daily? • Objective / Essential Question – • Review daily objective • Answer the essential question at the end of class • SSR/Writing • 10 minutes silent reading every day (own novel) • Grammar – • 10 minute grammar lesson daily • Weekly quiz • Vocabulary – • Roots and affixes • Textual vocabulary

7. What is done daily? (cont.) • SpringBoard – • Daily • Reading & Writing • Daily • Novels – • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – AviOR • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson • Okay for Now – Gary Schmidt • Tangerine – Edward Bloor • The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom • The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton

9. What is SPRINGBOARD? • College Board curriculum • AP classes • College ready • “Rigor” • Every kid has the right to a challenging education that will let them go forward into college. Not every kid will decide to go, but every kid should have the education that gives them the skills to be successful if they decide to go.

10. English 7 – QTR 1 • This quarter introduces the yearlong focus on “choices,” using a variety of genres to investigate this thematic concept. Students will examine texts that present characters who, for personal or cultural reasons, have made choices about the way they live their lives. Students will analyze fiction and nonfiction texts and create and present original works that express their own connections to the texts in relationship to the choices they face.

11. English 7 – QTR 2 • There are many reasons why people choose to do something, buy something, or think a certain way. In this quarter, students will investigate how persuasion influences people’s choices. First, students will look at the art of persuasion in non-print texts, then move on to print texts. By the end of the unit, students will become skilled readers and writers of persuasive texts and be able to recognize the techniques writers use to influence the choices their readers make.

12. English 7 – QTR 3 • This quarter will engage students on one young man’s emerging realizations about himself, his family, and the society he lives in. Students will interpret, analyze, and evaluate a novel in terms of point of view, characterization, plot, structure, and other elements that create a unique text. Finally, students will analyze the choices made by the characters in the novel, Tangerine, and relate the concept of choices and consequences to their own life.

13. English 7 – QTR 4 • By this time of year, students are able to reflect upon the choices they have made in their writing, in addition to setting new goals for the remainder of the year. The portfolio they are developing provides multiple opportunities for reflection and revision. This quarter includes activities and tasks that will allow students to revisit, reflect on, and transform previous assignments in order for them to understand the role that purpose, audience, and structure can have in the revision process.

14. Course Activities • Literary analysis and application of literary elements to the study of literature. • Close textual analysis for literary elements and creative application of new knowledge. • Reading widely from fiction and non-fiction texts. • Experience in creating reflective writing • Engage in close reading of nonfiction texts. • Annotate text for meaning. • Analyze rhetoric (the art of using words to persuade). • Identify audience and purpose. • Create and support an argument. • Engage in close reading of a text to study how a literary text conveys meaning. • Analyze literature using the language of literary analysis. • Write to discuss the effects of literary elements. • Write with an attention to textual evidence and organizational patterns. • Maintain conscious attention to strategies for revising the content and organization of an essay. • Vary and manipulate sentence structure for effect • Analyze writing and plan revisions. • Manipulate language for specific purposes. • Choose words to convey precise meaning. • Analyze how syntax and sentence structure communicate meaning.

15. EXTRA CREDIT • Extra credit will be built into a variety of assignments.

16. BEHAVIOR • Manners • Participation • Students are expected to participate in all activities. • A positive attitude is very important. • Important: Students need to participate verbally on regular occasions. They also need to work quietly. Being able to shift back and forth will become a valuable and necessary skill.

17. Marianne McMahon – ELA 7 Acc • 702-799-4699 x3728 • memcmahon@interact.ccsd.net • my.ccsd.net – m mcmahon (home) – grammar and links • myhomeworkapp.com – great electronic agenda • upfront.scholastic.com – UpFront (PW: excellent728) • worldbookonline.com - student (ccsd2 – login and password)