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

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

3. About Ms. Wyatt Email: holly.wyatt@cobbk12.org
Blog:
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.

4. 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

5. Duh- owl- sight- ers

7. 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.

8. What we plan to do:

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

10. Central ideas of tolerance and empathy for others

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

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

13. 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

14. Contact Information
Navigating my blog:
Synergy (Online gradebook) ParentVUE: please our front clerk: Carolina Hasel at:

15. 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

16. One Team. One Goal. Student Success.

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