1. WELCOME Mrs. Michelle Miller 7th ELA 7th Pre-AP/GT ELA 7th Writing Lab

2. About Your Teacher Mrs. Miller – 18th year teaching middle school
11th year at FSMS teaching 7th grade
Certified as ELA 4th-8th in Texas with GT and Pre-AP training.
M. Ed. Educational Leadership and Supervision

3. Contact Information
Edmodo

4. Edmodo for Parents
1. To obtain the parent code, have the student log into their account. The code is located on the left side of the student home screen (scroll down past Groups and Communities).
2. Go to Click “Parent.”
3. In the pop-up box, fill in the required information including the parent code in the top field

5. Tutorials Thursday morning from 8:15 to 8:45 By appointment
Ms. Rizvi – Tuesday 8:15 – 8:45
Ms. Perez – Friday 8:15 – 8:45
By appointment

6. Conferences
6th Period: 2:10 to 3:00 on regular days 2:20 to 3:05 on advisory days Before or after school, by appt.

7. 7th Grade ELA Reading Process Writing Speaking/Listening Writing
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics
Literary Analysis
Research
Vocabulary

8. 7th Writing Lab ELA Support in writing Current Events
Reading – Author’s Craft
STAAR Practice
Writing
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics

9. Assignments
Daily Assignments: Homework/Classwork, Quizzes, Reading Activities, Vocabulary, Binder Checks, Reading Response Log Checks, Journal Checks, etc…
Major Grades:
Tests, Essays, Projects, Journal Rewrites,
Literary Analysis, Interactive Reading
Spiral and Reflections etc…

10. Novels Dark Water Rising by Marian Hale (fall semester)
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
(spring semester)

11. Materials ELA
Binder:
Do Now’s
Notes
WOW’s
G.U.M.
Assignments/Homework

12. Materials ELA Interactive Reading Spiral Reading Log Reading Responses
Reading Vocabulary
Literary Luminary

13. Interactive Reading Spiral
Read 1 hour in 1 week:
1 Reflection
1 Literary Luminary
1 Vocab Entr
Each Nine Weeks Grading Period: 7 hours and entries in each area due per nine weeks as a major grade.
IDEAS on WHAT to read:
tweentribune.com
Ideas: Nonfiction Articles/Poetry/Novels /Newspaper/Online Political/Sports/Entertainment Articles
Cross Genre text will be the focus through the year for the IRS.
PreAP will have additional literary analysis essays outside of class per semester on character and theme for outside reading.
Kindles and ipads are allowed for reading.

14. Materials Writing Lab
Spiral

15. Grading Policy Daily Work (50%) Major Grades (50%)
The weight of each assignment will be announced when the assignment is given.

16. Students wishing to be reassessed must do so during tutorials.
Retesting
For tests that are below 70%, students have the opportunity to be reassessed for a grade up to a 75%. (should attend a tutorial)
For students who made between 70% - 79% may make test corrections to raise their grade to a 75%.
Students wishing to be reassessed must do so during tutorials.

17. Late Work Policy
Assignments are due at the beginning of the period. If a student fails to turn in an assignment when it is collected, it will be considered LATE.
Students will receive partial credit for assignments turned in late.

18. Make-Up Work
Students need to see me for missed assignment explanation of the assignment.
The number of class meetings that are missed for excused absences is equal to the number of class periods that will be given to make the work up.
If an absence occurs when an assignment is due or on a test day, the student is responsible for turning in the assignment or taking the missed exam upon return.
Check Edmodo for missed assignments

19. Textbooks Literature, Holt McDougal
WriteSource, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

20. Wish List
Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Paper Towels

21. To get to Mrs. Miller’s website, please scan below.

22. Thanks for Coming! 