Welcome to 7th Grade Language Arts!

Agenda:
Learning Goal:
● About Me/Teaching Philosophy
Understand more about your
● ELA Basics
child’s teacher, the class, and
○ What we’re learning now - Notice & Note Signpost reading
strategies how to stay informed!
○ Vocabulary- Tues (p.1 due), Thurs (p.2 due), Friday Quizzes
○ Organization- Binder Tabs- reading,writing,grammar, “Tonight’s” Learning: :)
vocabulary, returned work
○ Quizlet - Search MrsPurgatoriELA7
● Check out classroom
○ Independent Reading - bring choice book to class everyday,
tracking progress, quarterly writing assignment website:
○ Scholastic Book Order (Class Code: NWSFW). First Due Date: MrsPurgatori.weebly.com
September 27th! ● Subscribe to Remind: Text
● Looking Forward - First class novel (Westing Game), Meadowbrook Trip @purgela7 to the number
Permission Slips in October

● QUESTIONS??? 81010
 Orange = 1st Semester

Tentative Overview of Curriculum

September = N&N Reading Strategies, Elements of Plot, Genre Types, AIA book
orders

October = Mood/Tone/Style, Mystery Genre, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

November = Sensory Language, Personal Narrative Writing

December= A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Trip to Meadowbrook Theatre

January= Semester Exam, Research Unit, 5 paragraph research essay, Holocaust

Memorial Center extra credit opportunity

February = Continue study on Holocaust, Prisoner B1032 (AIA pick)

Tentative Overview of Curriculum
March = Biography & Autobiography, Poetry

April = Author in April visit, M- Step prep, Informational/Argumentative writing

May = Theme, The Giver by Lois Lowry

June= Greek Mythology, Final Exam Review and Test