Pennfield Middle School 2009-10

Mrs. Meyer’s 7th Grade Gifted Seminar

Please read the following and place it in the front of your Reading folder after you and your parents have signed it.

General Expectations:

  1. Be prepared. Come to class with your notebook, folder, pen, pencil and any assignment

which is due.

  1. Be cooperative, polite, and respectful of yourself and others.
  2. Be prompt. Enter the classroom quietly. Be in your seat before the bell.
  3. Gum chewing, eating candy, and applying hairspray, perfume, and make-up are prohibited.
  4. When absent from school, it is your responsibility to make up missed work, quizzes or

tests.

  1. The teacher’s desk, and closet are off-limits to students except with permission from

the teacher.

Failure to adhere to classroom expectations will result in:

Warning

Student-Teacher or Team Conference

Parental Contact

Detention

Office Referral

Classwork:

  1. All work to be handed in should have a heading and be legible.
  2. Completion of the assignment planner book is required each day.
  3. Homework will be checked every day there is an assignment.
  4. Students are required to keep tally sheets up to date.

Grading Policy:

  1. Grades will be based on a point system and will be recorded on a tally sheet.
  2. Major projects/reports will receive one letter grade lower for every day handed in late.
  3. Your grade for the marking period will be the percentage arrived at by dividing the total of your combined points by the total points possible. Grades will be rounded to the nearest whole percent.
  4. Grades will be assigned as follows: A+= 97-100,A=90-96, B+=87-89, B= 80-86,C+=77-79, C=70-76, D= 65-69, F = below 65.
  5. Final grades for the year will be determined by your cumulative grade for all four marking periods and the final exam. The final exam will be worth 16% of the final grade for the year.

I have read and understand all of the above.

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Course Outline for Seventh Grade Gifted Seminar

Gifted Reading Seminar Grade 7 provides the students with learning experiences that will enhance their reading skills, research skills, and study skills. The course utilizes instructional strategies that are both individualized and academically challenging through activities such as inquiry-based research and close reading, critical thinking, Socratic discussions, and dialectical journaling.

I. Study Skills Unit

A. Learning Styles

1. Describe the different learning styles

2. Identify your own learning style

3. Apply your learning style to appropriate study strategies

B. Reading and Study Strategies

1. Completing assignments, previewing, actively reading expository

material.

2. Memorizing information

  1. Note taking
  2. Proofreading
  3. Preparing for tests
  4. Graphic organizers
  5. Time management
  6. Content area reading strategies

C. Textbook/Computer Reference Skills (includes research process)

1. How to utilize reference materials

2. How to read and interpret graphics

3. Bibliographic record of use of reference materials

4. Parenthetical citations

II. Literature Units

  1. Language of Literature Anthology
  2. Perfection Learning Series
  3. Selected novels from approved reading list

III. Forms of Evaluation

1. Tests and quizzes

2 Novel-related activities

3. Cooperative learning teams

4. Journals