Welcome to Maternity's Junior High Language Arts Program 6th * 7th * 8th
Language Arts curriculum will strive to increase your child’s proficiency in English, Vocabulary, Speech, and Writing. The use of laptops in the Junior High Classroom has been a GREAT SUCCESS. The students are readily able to access current assignments, take notes, do research, complete assignments, and check both weekly and daily assignments given by their teachers.
I have been an educator for many years and have a Bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University and a Master’s degree from Olivet Nazarene University. I enjoy reading, writing and traveling. I am very fortunate to have my grandchildren not only near me, but at Maternity as they share in the joys of a Christian education.
Thank you to everyone who helped make our 2008 Speech Contest such a great success. The students did an excellent job, but more importantly, I was so pleased with all of the nice things that the judges had to say about our students!! There will be a brief program on Wednesday at 10:30 for the school to see some of the students' speech performances; everyone is welcome. This is a short week with parent-teacher conferences on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I am looking forward to seeing you and reviewing your child's progress for the first trimester.
6th Grade
New Unit # 5English - Textbook - Chapter # 5 Mechanics & Punctuation
Students will be learning and using the different types of punctuation and capitalization for specific sentences, paragraphs and examples from the textbook and worksheets. Students will also be learning about correct punctuation including quotes, commas, hyphens, colons, parenthesis, and underlining when appropriate. We will also be working on some holiday poetry.
Language Arts - Assignments will be given from the text and additional practice with worksheets. We will be taking quick quizzes from time to time to check our progress before the Unit Test.
Students need to be WRITING down their DAILY ASSIGNMENTS!!!
Mrs. Miller
7th Grade
New Unit # 5 - Mechanics and Capitalization
Students will be learning and using the different types of capitalization and punctuation for specific sentences, paragraphs and examples from the textbook and worksheets. Students will be reviewing hyphens, colons, commas, capitalization, quotes, underlining, parenthesis and mechanic usage. We will also be doing some holiday poetry.
Language Arts - Unit # 5 - Capitalization and Punctuation review.
Students need to be WRITING down their DAILY homework assignments.
Vocabulary - Book C - New Book
Diagnostic Test
Introduction to Unit # 1 - No Unit Work this week.
8th Grade
New Unit - Unit # 5 - Capitalization and Punctuation Unit. Review of Mechanics in grammar.
Chapter # 5 - Capitalization and Punctuation this week. We will be in this chapter for the next several weeks. Students will be reviewing capitalization, punctuation, hyphens, colons, commas, parenthesis, quotes, underlining and other capitalization and punctuation marks.
Vocabulary - Book D
1. . Students may use the website: www.vocabularyworkshop.com. to help them with their vocabulary units. We are currently taking some vocabulary time to practice our speech pieces.
2. Mastery Test on Units # 4-6 Review
I try to e-mail daily assignments to all classes and students who are absent may easily get this information. I am always available by phone: School (815) 933-7758. After school (3-3:30) or by e-mail lmiller@MBVM.org.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns about your child’s academic progress. I look forward to helping your child prepare for the challenges of Junior High and beyond. At Maternity, our main goal is for your child to experience a Christian education that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. L. Miller
