2. McClure Middle School Open House
Mrs. Ussery
English Language Arts

3. University of Maryland Baltimore County
Kennesaw State University ~ Master of Education
Love teaching at McClure
Have always wanted to be a teacher!
Live in West Cobb
Children attend Vaughan Elementary School &
Lost Mountain Middle School

4. Love working with students & want your student to
be successful!
Communicating with you is very important to me
Main priority is to encourage students to let them
know I care about them
Realize each student is unique and learns differently

5. Textbook: SpringBoard English Language Arts
Textbooks and journals stay in classroom
Cost to replace if lost: $75.00
Students can access the textbook online

7. Usually unfinished classwork (on occasion)
Students required to independently read outside of school
Independent reading is key for academic success
monitoring amount of pages read and vocabulary

8. Journals
enables students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers
used for class notes, vocabulary, free writing, response to readings
important part of our class, used daily

9. Winter Novel Study
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (does not count as independent reading)
Great if student has his/her own copy, but not required.
Students should NOT read ahead –
Sabotages use of the text for lessons on predicting, inferencing, foreshadowing, etc.
AND students spoil the book for other students.

10. Please sign up for Remind App texts!
Phone: (678)
Blog:
daily updates - assignments, homework, announcements for each class period
Please sign up for Remind App texts!
To: 81010

11. Assignments must be on time, but late work is accepted
Point will be deducted for each day late, not to exceed two weeks
Students may also their work to Mrs. Ussery if needed.
Technology failure (“my printer ran out of ink”) is NOT an acceptable excuse for late work
All work must be completely ready to turn in at the beginning of the class period on the due date.
Students will not be allowed to print work at the beginning of class on the due date
Library Commons available for printing