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Mrs. Wasilk is in her ninth year of teaching 8th grade Language Arts. She earned her undergraduate degree and graduate degree from the University of Michigan-Flint. Mrs. Wasilk is married and has a four year old son and a 2 1/2 year old daughter. She also coaches the girls varsity soccer team in the spring. Go Wolves! |
Writers Notebook Entries (Table of Contents) 1. Gallery Walk See, Think, Wonder 11/20 2. Arguments 11/29 3. Tug of War Reflection 12/3 4. Practice Commentary 12/14 5. Thoughts on Newtown, CT 12/17 6. Argument draft one 12/18 7. Peer edit 12/21 8. Sci-fi Predictions and Questions 1/3
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Binder Checklist 1. School uniform articles 2. Random Sample story 3. Stop and Jot questions 4. Random Sample Q & A Peer Discussion 5. Analyzing Arguments 6. Explain Your Argument 7. Evidence Types 8. Name That Evidence Type 9. Evidence Types Mini-Task 10. Commentary Anchor Chart 11. The Veldt with predictions (6) & questions (6) 12. Credible Sources on the Internet 13. 8th Grade Research Topics 14. Citing Sources 15. Practice writing complex commentary 16. Commentary competition 17. Name that paragraph structure 18. Identify the transition 19. Transition words and phrases anchor chart 20. A Sound of Thunder - 3 Inferences 21. Just distance poem 22. Making connections - Just Distance 23. All Summer in a Day 24. Synthesis Chart - All Summer in a Day 25. The Pedestrain annotated |
School Supply List USED EVERY DAY - 3 ring binder (for this class only), loose leaf paper OR notebook, writers notebook HELPFUL TO HAVE - 2 highlighters, colored pencils, sticky notes, glue stick |
