1. Mrs. Marcoux
6th Grade English

2. What can you do to help your child have a successful year?
Check your child’s agenda or my website regularly to make sure assignments are being completed, and that test preparation is taking place.
Check your child’s backpack regularly for organization and materials.
Check to make sure your child has assignments completed, and they are in their backpack ready to turn in.
Look over spelling and vocabulary assignments for mistakes.
Give practice tests before regular Friday spelling and vocabulary tests.
Check your child’s grade through Power School regularly to make sure your child is not missing any work. A “0” means they did not turn it in, but it can be turned in with a late pass.

3. Should You Edit Your Child’s Writing?
Please avoid changing your child’s writing. Please guide them and give them some ideas and feedback, but all changes should be in their own words. If you change their writing, I will not know your child’s true abilities, and I will not be able to address their weaknesses.
Final copies can be typed. They should be 12 pt font, Times New Roman, double spaced, and in black ink. We use MLA format. All students have been given Style Guide to reference.
Hand written final copies need to be in blue or black ink, skipping lines.
Most of our writing will be done in class, but the final copy writing will be done at home.

4. Grades Grades will be updated about twice per week.
If there is a zero, that means the assignment was not turned in.
Students were given 3 late passes the first week for the first trimester. Late work will not be accepted without a late pass.
If a student is absent, they have two days for each day absent to complete make up work or tests they missed.
It is the student’s responsibility to make up tests and complete work due to an absence.
Students are to write their assignments in their agenda daily, and homework is also posted on my website as it is assigned.

5. Powerschool for Parents
SMS School Code:
DRMT

6. Common Core Focuses on developing critical thinking skills – how students get to an answer.
Skill Overview:
Think: support answers, ideas, opinions, claims with evidence – “prove it”
Express: effectively communicate thinking orally and in writing
Collaborate: work with others to broaden thinking
Innovate: apply thinking to a new challenge.
Developed Through:
Reading – navigate and use informational text; understand elements of fiction
Vocabulary – develop academic language, elevate expressive language, build comprehension of complex text
Writing- build on basic paragraph structure to construct narrative, informational, and argumentative essays using correct grammar and punctuation conventions.

7. What will we be doing this year?
Reading and writing from our new StudySync curriculum.
Grammar from StudySync.
Formal writing pieces in Narrative, Expository, and Persuasive form.
Novels – Reading and Analysis
Hatchet, The Lightening Thief, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Where the Red Fern Grows.

8. Thank you for coming tonight!
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