ELA Overview
ELA will be this number of minutes long per day.
What is 90 minutes?
Social studies will be this number of minutes long.
What is 60 minutes?
The materials you should bring to class for ELA.
What is a pencil, homework, checkbook, an independent reading book, optional book of choice, and a respectful attitude?
The percent of your grade based on classwork and homework.
What is 40%?
The definition of economy.
What is a system of money that is earned and used?
The focus this year is to read books across lots of different (blank).
What are genres?
Explain how you will know whether to go to social studies or science.
What is thinking about the class you had the day before, and going to the class you didn't have? Or, what is rotating between the classes?
The materials you should bring to class for social studies.
What is a pencil, folders, checkbook, a book of choice, and a respectful attitude?
The percent of your grade based on projects and assessments.
What is 60%?
What you can get paid daily for doing.
What is coming to class prepared and completing homework?
Name the four types of fiction we will be reading this year.
What is realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and Greek myths?
Name four areas we will be studying this year.
What is world geography, maps, population and migration, culture, human/environment interaction, economics and trade, and government?
Expectations for the beginning of class.
What is come to class prepared, take out your homework (for ELA), and review the agenda and objective?
The late work policy.
What is completing work during recess, for homework, or after school?
What you get paid weekly for doing.
What is your classroom job?
Name the three types of nonfiction we will be reading this year.
What is autobiography/memoir, informative nonfiction, and persuasive nonfiction?
Name the other four areas we will be studying. Think back to the 300-point question!
What is world geography, maps, population and migration, culture, human/environment interaction, economics and trade, and government?
The expectations for the middle and end of class.
What is be respectful and pay attention to the lesson, work cooperatively, and do your best? What is turn in your work, clean up, and line up?
The missed work policy.
What is checking in and getting the work that was missed, and then turning it in?
What you can get a random bonus for.
What is going above and beyond?
A genre that could either be fiction or nonfiction.
What is poetry?
Name the five themes of geography.
Location, place, human/environment interaction, movement, and region.
The two overarching expectations and what they mean (think of the two R's).
What is respect and responsibility? Reasonable explanations will be accepted.
This happens to your grade when work is not turned in, or there is academic dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, etc.).
What is you get a zero for that assignment?
1. What you have to pay for.
2. What you can choose to pay for.
1. What is rent for your table?
2. What is auction items and whole class rewards?