Our Curriculum
The focus of our first unit this year.
6th: What is plot?
7th: What is mirror literature?
8th: What are poetry and rhetorical appeals?
How you earn the 5th bonus marble for the class jar
What is meeting all ROAR expectations in class?
Where you can store your ELA binder if you'd like
What is the bookcase by the door?
The typical amount of time to get ready at the start of ELA class
What is 2 minutes?
Where Dr. Krieger was born and raised
What is Colorado?
This is the focus of our second quarter
6th: What is characterization?
7th: What is window literature?
8th: What are authorial choices?
Being kind to one another and the teachers
What is respectful?
This is how we will track our progress with the success criteria?
What is moving the magnets on the back board (and checking it off in our unit packet)?
Where you turn your work in
What is the basket on the counter?
The four universities Dr. Krieger has graduated from
What is NYU, Columbia University, Penn, and Loyola?
This is what we will work on during Quarter 3
6th: What is theme?
7th: What is dystopian literature?
8th: What is historical fiction?
We make adequate progress on our success criteria
What is reflective?
Where you will get your journals on days we journal for our bellringer activity
What is the bookcase in the back of the room?
Where you pick graded work up when it is returned
What is the bin with individualized folders?
The number of concerts Dr. Krieger has been to so far in his life
What is 400?
This is the focus of our work in our final quarter this year
6th: What is the literary canon?
7th: What is researching social movements and upstanders?
8th: What is a personal research project?
What is accountable?
This is how we use the Tea Time board
What is posting an answer to the month's question on a card to the board?
What is as nice as we found it (or better)?
What is Lake View High School? (Westinghouse, ChiTech, and Philadelphia School District also acceptable)
These are the four categories of extension work in ELA this year
What are daily choice board, Spanish tasks, family tasks, and skills-focused projects?
Having all of your class materials with you and ready in the first 2 minutes of class
What is organized?
This what you post to the READiculous board.
What are our current independent reading books?
What are table leader, materials manager, clean up crew, and substitute?
What is riding a bike?