Welcome to our 2017-2018 school year and this English Language Arts class. I am looking forward to spending this year with you. I believe reading, writing, and speaking are critical life skills that will help you succeed in High School and beyond, and you will have plenty of time and practice doing all three this year. In this class, you’ll have the opportunity to find and read books you’ll fall in love with and write stories, essays, and poems that you are proud of.
Our class time will be spent in a workshop model. This is an instructional model that is designed to give you as much in-class time as possible to read and write. Through these reading and writing workshops, you will be able to increase the volume of your reading and writing while building a toolkit of strategies and skills that can be applied to whatever book and writing piece that you’re working on.
In this class you will:
- Read poetry, fiction and non-fiction books and articles
- Write on an informal basis to practice key writing principles and strategies, as well as the Standard Conventions of the English Language.
- Use Utah Compose and provided prompts to practice writing in a formal setting.
- Write a narrative essay, an argumentative essay, and an informative essay.
- Craft speeches and presentations and participate in debates.
- Practice and master the ELA standards appropriate for your grade level as established by Utah’s Board of Education.
- And most important… have fun.
To read more about our what we’ll be doing in class, please read your class syllabus.
If you have any questions or want to discuss anything in the syllabus or relating to our class, please don’t hesitate to reach out. My email is slucyk@mariamontessoriacademy.org