Language Arts Newsletter 
Week of February 13th  
 
 

NO ACT OF KINDNESS, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, IS EVER WASTED.  — Aesop


 
 
 
 
 
 

Team ELA Chooses 

Kindness!


 

Cycle 3B Instruction Week Three :


6th-grade focus standards:

6.RV.2.5


6.W.5


The Big Ideas: 

Reference Material

(Introduce Research)

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7th-grade focus standards:


7.RN.2.3, 7.RL.2.3

7.RV.2.1

7.RL.2.

Grammar/usage review

7.W.6.1b, 7.W.6.1d

7.W.6.1e, 7.W.6.2b


The Big Ideas:

*Context Clues

*Influences in Text

*Grammar Review

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8th-grade focus standards:

8.RV.2.1

8.RN.4.3

Grammar/usage review

8.W.6.1c, 8.W.6.1d

8.W.6.1e, 8.W.6.2a


The Big Ideas:

*Context Clues

*Conflicting Texts

*Grammar Review

*Compound sentences

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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.  
   
    — William Arthur Ward


 
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“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
  – Albert Einstein
 

6th Grade: 

 

1. Trauma training 

2. ISTEP resources

3. Quill writing program 

 

7th/8th Grades: 


1. Looking ahead to Cycle 3C


2. Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset


3. Share strategies / resources  


 
 
 
 
Cycle 3B mini-assessments

Starting Wednesday mini-assessments will be on Canvas and ready for you to administer
2017 Highland ISTEP Schedule

Day 1 - Wednesday, March 1

7:30 — All students to testing location - 1st period teacher

7:50 — Begin Math 1 - 41 minute test

Begin ELA 1 - 25 minute test

9:25 — Students released to 1st Period class by the PA

9:30 — 2 hour delay schedule begins


Day 2 - Thursday, March 2

7:30 — All students to testing location - 1st period teacher

7:50 — Begin ELA 2 - 65 minute test

9:20 — Students released to 1st Period class by the PA

9:25 — 2 hour delay schedule begins


Day 3 - Friday, March 3

7:30 — All students to testing location - 1st period teacher

(8th grade students to gym or auditorium)

8:00 — Begin 6th Grade Science Test - 45 minute test

Begin 7th Grade Social Studies Test - 35 minute test

9:10 — Students released to 1st Period class by the PA

9:15 — 2 hour delay schedule begins


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Adopt a growth mindset in your classroom!

Watch the video below: it just might change the way you praise your students! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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