Parents, Guardians, & Students--
Congratulations on all your accomplishments during the first semester of middle school! We have had a great year at Highview and are very excited about what is still to come!
This quarter in ELA, our 2 major units are a Memoir Narrative Writing Unit and a Poetry Unit.
For the Memoir Unit, students will be working through the writing process to write a memoir of an experience he/she has had! This can be an accomplishment/achievement, a struggle, an adventure, a difficult situation faced, etc. Throughout the unit, I will teach a number of writing mini-lessons. Students will then apply their learning to their memoirs, which will be typed in Google Classroom! Be sure to ask students about their writing topics and feel free to check in on their writing with them!
For the poetry unit, we will be reading and analyzing poetry as well as writing different types of poetry. We will also spend quite a bit of time learning about different types of literary devices and figurative language.
Some ongoing activities we will work on during this unit include independent reading, reading responses (in Google Classroom), and Book Commercials. For the Book Commercials, students will pick an independent reading book they've enjoyed this year and present it to the class with the aid of a Google Slide. Please see assignment instructions in Google Classroom for further details!
Thank you for all that you do. As always, please reach out to me with questions and/or concerns!
-Miss Barvitski