1. Arcola Intermediate School 2016-2017
Fall Open House
Arcola Intermediate School

2. Educational Goal
Encourage students to be lifelong readers, writers, and speakers
Encourage students to demonstrate good character
Foster the whole child

3. Homework and Grading Homework is not posted online consistently.
All graded assignments are posted on parent portal in a timely fashion.
Writing assignments may take longer to grade.

4. Literary Units Includes short stories, poetry, and an in class novel
Will consist of group and individual assignments, supplemental exercises, writing activities, and quizzes
Will focus on analytical skills addressed in the Common Core state standards

5. Grammar Units
Incorporates a mastery of sentence structure, punctuation, agreement, and capitalization
Includes the study of gerunds, voice, verbals, and other such concepts
Will consist of notes, supplemental exercises, group and individual assignments, and quizzes
Will focus on skills addressed in the Common Core state standards

6. Vocabulary Units
Will include literary terms and grammatical terminology
Will include vocabulary units taken from the Vocabulary Workshop text
Will include vocabulary taken from the various short stories and novel
Will focus on terminology and vocabulary addressed in the Common Core state standards

7. Special Assignments
Job Shadowing
Independent Reading Assignment each marking period
Research Paper

8. Study Skills are paramount!!!!
Flashcards
Two column notes
Study guides
8th period help

9. Homework Students should never say that they don’t have any homework.
Students should be reviewing classwork for 20 minutes each night and/or free reading if nothing formal is assigned.

10. Things you can do to help…
Read the weekly s
Create a calendar of assignments/assessments and due dates
Quiz your child
Communicate with the teacher/team