1. Meet the teacher night
Mrs. Reppi

2. Welcome!
I am very excited to meet you! I’m sure you have a lot of questions and I will do my best to answer them!
Question Cards – leave them with me if there’s something that I haven’t covered!

3. Who is Mrs. Reppi? Native New Yorker (Buffalo, not NYC… go Sabres!)
4 years previous experience with grades 5-12
State University of NY at Fredoina & University of Buffalo

4. Classroom communication
Power Schools Parent Portal
Access student grades and progress
Class website: martinenglish8.wordpress.com
Remind 101
Questions or concerns? Please feel free to me:

5. Martinenglish8.wordpress.com

6. Classroom website This will be a great place to:
See a list of what we did in class
Find links to handouts and materials
Seek help
Explore additional resources
Keep up to date with what’s going on in class and in school

7. Remind 101 For class reminders Not a messaging service
No extra charges as long as you have texting on your cell phone plan

8. What we will learn
We follow the 8th Grade North Carolina Common Core Curriculum
Focus on reading literature, informational texts, writing, speaking & listening, and language.
For more information regarding the NC Common Core, visit: core/

9. Class novels The Giver Anne Frank
Used as a platform to explore a number of topics and themes including euphemism, dystopian societies, and symbolism.
Parallel instruction with Social Studies curriculum during their study of WW2

10. Grading Martin policy – grades earned are the grades recorded
50% Major, 40% minor, 10% practice
New 10 point grading scale
Grades get rounded up to 59% at the end of the quarter
Late work is accepted until the end of a unit of study with a 10 point deduction
Grade Recovery:
Test corrections = half of their points back
Rewrite an essay = all points back

11. AIG & support
Differentiate as much as possible – same assignments/topics tiered for different levels
Different books about the same topic
Writing contests
Be an advocate! Just ask and I am happy to help! 

12. 40 Book challenge
We will be tracking the books that we read throughout the year using our 40 Book Challenge Logs.
We will also be having an 8th grade Battle of the Classes. Your student will be representing Team Reppi!
No reading logs – We want to encourage our readers to enjoy reading and not make a chore of it

13. What you can do at home to help
Encourage reading – read as a family, discuss books, read the newspaper, offer choice, go to the library, give books as gifts
Promote writing – keep a journal or blog, write letters, make it relate to something they like, find an audience, use it as a way to cope and understand

14. Questions?
Question Cards