Mrs. Wasilk's Web Page
Fourth Hour Conference 11:55 - 1:07
248-623-5671

email skwasilk@clarkston.k12.mi.us


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

 


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