Foundational Skills
Expectations
Grades
Textbook
How to Succeed
100

A basic skill that is practiced in every ELA class and usually involves books.

What is reading?

100

The one who dismisses the students.

What is the teacher?

100

This is worth 40% of your nine-weeks grade.

What is a daily grade/ quiz grade?

100

Kleenex, hand sanitizer, paper towels, and Clorox wipes

What are requested supplies?

200
We practiced this skill when we wrote friendly letters.

What is writing?

200

The time to visit the restroom.

What is transition time?

200

This is worth 60% of your nine-weeks grade

What is a test or project grade?

200

The title of our classroom textbook

What is Mirrors and Windows?

300

Many people are deathly afraid of practicing this ELA skill publicly.

What is speaking?

300

What you receive after a tardy.

What is detention?

300

Causes you to receive a 10% deduction from assignments.

What is turning in late work or work without a name?

300

The result of losing a classroom textbook

What is replacing it?

300

A place to keep up with all of your assignments in one place.

What is your planner?

400

This foundational ELA skill is practiced regularly by students, but needs to be practiced more in the real world.

What is listening?

400

The only food or drink permitted in classrooms.

What is water?

400

When you should contact the teacher about missing work or make-up tests.

What is an absence?

400

Where the class text books should always remain.

What is the classroom?

400

A tool to organize your work for ELA class.

What is a binder?

500

The four foundational skills of the ELA classroom.

What is reading, writing, speaking, and listening?

500

When you should put your electronics away and copy down your homework.

What is the beginning of class?

500

When you can't receive a grade for the work you've completed and turned in.

What is an unexcused absence?

500

When you need to access the classroom textbook at home.

What is asking for the CD-ROM

500

Asking these will help you solve your confusion and allow your teacher to help you.

What is a question?