Foundational Skills
A basic skill that is practiced in every ELA class and usually involves books.
What is reading?
The one who dismisses the students.
What is the teacher?
This is worth 40% of your nine-weeks grade.
What is a daily grade/ quiz grade?
Kleenex, hand sanitizer, paper towels, and Clorox wipes
What are requested supplies?
What is writing?
The time to visit the restroom.
What is transition time?
This is worth 60% of your nine-weeks grade
What is a test or project grade?
The title of our classroom textbook
What is Mirrors and Windows?
Many people are deathly afraid of practicing this ELA skill publicly.
What is speaking?
What you receive after a tardy.
What is detention?
Causes you to receive a 10% deduction from assignments.
What is turning in late work or work without a name?
The result of losing a classroom textbook
What is replacing it?
A place to keep up with all of your assignments in one place.
What is your planner?
This foundational ELA skill is practiced regularly by students, but needs to be practiced more in the real world.
What is listening?
The only food or drink permitted in classrooms.
What is water?
When you should contact the teacher about missing work or make-up tests.
What is an absence?
Where the class text books should always remain.
What is the classroom?
A tool to organize your work for ELA class.
What is a binder?
The four foundational skills of the ELA classroom.
What is reading, writing, speaking, and listening?
When you should put your electronics away and copy down your homework.
What is the beginning of class?
When you can't receive a grade for the work you've completed and turned in.
What is an unexcused absence?
When you need to access the classroom textbook at home.
What is asking for the CD-ROM
Asking these will help you solve your confusion and allow your teacher to help you.
What is a question?