7A Composition

We will be utilizing the Write Source SkillsBook from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for our main composition curriculum this year. It provides students with opportunities to practice editing and proofreading skills throughout the writing process. Students will focus on MUG when writing- mechanics, usage, and grammar. The seventh grade SkillsBook will include: proofreading activities (marking punctuation, editing for mechanics, improving spelling, and using the right word), sentence activities (sentence basics, sentence problems, sentence variety), and part of speech activities (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions).

 

Students will take a pretest at the beginning of the year, two quarterly progress tests, and one post test and the end of the year. The pretest is designed to determine students' level of writing experience and knowledge. It is used as the baseline for measuring students' progress from beginning of the year to the end. The progress tests help monitor students' progress and allow teachers to refine teaching plans based on individual learners. The post test will determine how much progress students have made. Each assessment has three parts. Part 1: Basic Elements of Writing and Part 2: Proofreading and Editing comprise a total of 30 multiple choice questions. Part 3: Writing provides a writing prompt in which students respond with a short essay.

We will also be incorporating a spelling unit throughout the course of the school year which will expose our seventh graders to 300 new words.

 

DAILY HOMEWORK: Read for 30 minutes! Parent initial in planner.