English 6th Grade (Period 1)

The purpose of this course is to accelerate and sustain student’s proficiency in the language arts. This class will be standards based comprehensive and balanced instruction to ensure that students develop their reading, writing, comprehension, analytic, speaking and collaborative skills. They will spend time immersed in high quality literature, and work with expository text. They will participate in Writer’s Workshop to realize their full capabilities as authors of authentic writing.

Materials: Your child will need to purchase:
1. loose leaf paper
2. two (different colored highlighters).
3. One (1) red pen
4. one (1)packet of different colored construction paper
5. (1) 70-100 page spiral notebook
6. (1) marble composition book