Membership/Direct Donation Save the Date: October 17, 2019

Holly Wyatt 7th Grade Reading Welcome to Open House! Holly Wyatt 7th Grade Reading

About Ms. Wyatt Email: holly.wyatt@cobbk12.org Blog: http://www.cobblearning.net/hudson810/ Shorter University I’m from Covington, Georgia. This is my 18th year of teaching. I have taught grades K-8th grade. I have two daughters and one son. My oldest daughter will be attending the University of North Georgia this fall. My son is in the second grade. My middle daughter is a senior in high school.

Grading Scale Tests/Major Projects: 40% Comprehension, Vocabulary, Projects Quizzes/Minor Projects: 25% Applying strategies, Vocabulary, comprehension Classwork: 25% In class assignments, comprehension Homework: 10% Book Reviews First Book Review Due: September 20th Second Book Review Due: October 11th

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What your child will be learning this year . . . Students will have a primary focus on literary text and a secondary focus on informational text, alternating each 9 weeks. A literary text is a piece of written material, such as a book or poem, that has the purpose of telling a story or entertaining, as in a fictional novel. Informational text is a subset of the larger category of nonfiction (Duke & Bennett-Armistead, 2003). Its primary purpose is to inform the reader about the natural or social world. Different from fiction, and other forms of nonfiction, informational text does not utilize characters.

What we plan to do:

biographies about successful entrepreneurs 18 Under 18: Meet the Young Innovators Who Are Changing the World biographies about successful entrepreneurs

Central ideas of tolerance and empathy for others

Film clips to teach theme, character traits, conflict, tone, and mood

Music to teach poetry – rhyme, repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia

What we plan to do 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens – A self help book for successful habits; adapted from the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Students will refer back to their inferred responses and questions to the 18 Under 18 article and the Successful Entrepreneur biography/Warm-Ups. Indirectly Teaching. Teach Back – As a PSA on each habit. Incorporate songs, poems, and quotes. Freak The Mighty: An intelligent boy named Kevin who is physically disabled due to morquio syndrome and Max who is learning disabled become the best of friends WebQuest, Anticipation Guide, Figurative Language, Connection to DMS Challenge The Outsiders: 1960’s Background Information – Gallery Walk, Characterization, Citing evidence to support or argue a claim, theme analysis; summarizing and synthesizing strategies; choice board projects – playlist project, newscast simulation, journal *Thura’s Diary, *Farewell To Manzanar, *October Sky, *Cryptid Hunters *A Christmas Carol * Strategies: Making Connections Improve Fluency Make Inferences Metacognition Synthesize

Contact Information Navigating my blog: http://www.cobblearning.net/hudson810/ Email: holly.wyatt@cobbk12.org Synergy (Online gradebook) ParentVUE: please email our front clerk: Carolina Hasel at: Carolina.Helsel@cobbk12.org

Reading Trivia 4. The objective for Cobb County is Many Teams. Different Goals. Student Success One Team. Deviate From the Team. Student Success Take a second job by playing on the Braves because we can do better. One Goal. Student Success One Team. One Goal. Student Success

One Team. One Goal. Student Success.

Reading Trivia 5. How long it will take you to get out of the parking lot…