7th+Language+Arts

=7th Grade English / Language Arts 2015-2016=

John Baker __jbaker@chinquapin.org__ (713)-447-9992 Text/Email - Any Time Call - M-Th: Before 10pm, Sat-Sun: High Noon to Sunset

My name is John Baker and I’m from Houston. I am a graduate of Washington and Lee University, where I majored in European History and Global Politics. I have a younger brother in his Junior year at Vanderbilt. I am teaching for many reasons, not just my deep love of hearing my own voice. I had teachers who inspired me and nurtured my own love of learning, and hopefully I can lead you to finding your own passions, in due time.
 * About Me **

This class will be an environment where we are able to learn and to grow together, and we can only achieve this through enthusiasm and respect. > > > In order to follow through with these expectations, we will have class rules: > >
 * Expectations and Rules **
 * We will show respect to ourselves and others
 * We will have a positive attitude
 * We will come to class prepared to learn
 * 1)  Raise your hand if you have something to say or have a question.
 * 1)  Please keep your cell phones silenced and put away

__Tardy:__ Learning begins the moment you step into the room. If you are not seated, silent, and working when the bell rings, you are tardy. 3 tardies will result in an infraction. __Absent:__ If the absence is planned, either let me know in person or contact me so I can get your work to you. If it is an unexpected absence, come see me as soon as possible to get your make up work. __Homework:__ Please have your homework on the left side of your desk when class begins. If it is not ready at the beginning of class, it is late, and will drop a letter grade each day.
 * Class Procedures **

ONE composition journal for Writing TWO folders with pockets, one for Language Arts and one for English ONE spiral notebook for class notes Pens and Pencils
 * Supplies **

By the end of this School Year, ALL students will be able to: > > >
 * Course Goals **
 * Write clearly, using new vocabulary and correct grammar in writing assignments
 * Understand the writing process and demonstrate that understanding in writing assignments
 * Effectively read by analyzing, making inferences, and drawing conclusions from different types of literature


 * Grading **
 * Participation || 10% ||
 * Homework, Daily Work || 30% ||
 * Quizzes/Essays || 30% ||
 * Tests/Projects || 30% ||


 * Schedule **

The Writing Process Summary writing Personal Narratives Vocabulary Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. The Puffin Group:1978. Dhal, Roald. “Lamb to the Slaughter” Harpers Magazine: 1953. Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham-- 1963 Random House: 1995. Short stories compare and contrast Timed Writing Persuasive Essay Vocabulary Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. Vonnegut, Kurt. “Harrison Bergeron” Crane, Stephen. “A Dark Brown Dog” The Giver Debates Persuasive Essay Research Paper Vocabulary Lowry, Lois The Giver. Random House: 1993 Research Papers Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet The Folger Shakespeare Library: 1992 Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet: The Graphic Novel Plain text Version Classical Comics Ltd.: 2000
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=**7th grade Language Arts 2013-2014**=

__**Syllabus:**__

__**2013-2014 TOPICS**__
**__Quarter 1 Topics__:**


 * Language Arts:**

Parts of speech Parts of a sentence
 * types of nouns(abstract, collective...), types of pronouns (reflexive, intensive, indefinite ...), pronoun antecedent agreement, verbs (linking, action (trans. intrans.)), adjectives and adverbs (comparative and superlative), prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.
 * subject, predicate, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition, object complement

Verbs
 * introduction to participles, irregular verbs, progressive tense, perfect tense

**Texts:** //Grammar For Writing: Teacher’s Edition// Sadlier-Oxford: 2000

__**Quarter 2 Topics**__


 * Language Arts:**

Phrases Clauses Etymology
 * appositive, adjective, adverb
 * independent and subordinate (adjective, adverb)


 * Texts:**

//Grammar For Writing: Teacher’s Edition// Sadlier-Oxford: 2000

__**Quarter 3 Topics:**__


 * Language Arts:**

Verbals Grammar CDs
 * Participles, participial phrases, absolute phrases, gerunds, gerund phrases, infinitives, infinitive phrases

//Grammar For Writing: Teacher’s Edition// Sadlier-Oxford: 2000
 * Texts:**

__**Quarter 4 Topics:**__


 * Language Arts**

Punctuation Compound- complex sentences Modifiers Poetry
 * comma, semicolon, colon, parentheses, ellipses, hyphen, dash, quotation marks, apostrophe...
 * misplaced and dangling modifiers
 * tone, theme, imagery, sound devices, meter, different forms (rondeau,haiku, Shakespearean sonnet, etc), figurative language

**Texts:**

//Grammar For Writing: Teacher’s Edition// Sadlier-Oxford: 2000

Assorted poems:

“The Rose that Grew from Concrete” Tupac Shakur

“A Blade of Grass” Brian Patten

“I Hear America Singing” Walt Whitman

“I, Too, Sing America” Langston Hughes

“We Wear the Mask” Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall

“If We Must Die” Claude McKay

“Fire and Ice” Robert Frost

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas

“ Teusaquillo, 1989” Maurice Kilwein Guevara

“Triad” Adelaide Crapsey

“Virginia” T.S. Eliot"Abuelito Who" Sandra Cisneros

= 2012-2013 7th Grade Language Arts =

Goals:
By the end of the course all students will be able to: 1. Practice critical thinking on all assignments. 2. Write clearly, utilizing proper conventions and new vocabulary in final essay assignments. 3. Understand that writing is a process; be comfortable with planning, drafting, editing and revising on final essay assignments.

Grammar:
Subject and Predicate Verb tenses Subject verb agreement

Vocabulary:
Selected words from in-class reading assignments

Writing:
The writing process Summaries Narrative essays