Welcome to Mrs. Lukac

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Welcome to Mrs. Lukacs Writing Workshop
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Who is this teacher?

• Graduated from Kean University with a B.A. in
  English and elementary education (certified to
  teach K-12 in Language Arts/English)

• Several years of 7th grade Language Arts
  experience.
• Park Middle School Newspaper Advisor

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What will we be doing this year?

• The goal of this class is to write, reflect, and
  discuss topics that relate to our students as
  individuals, as well as the world around them. We
  will accomplish this by linking Language Arts
  concepts to our writing tasks and writing in a
  variety of forms.

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Our Class Schedule

• Begin with a Do Now
• The Writing Workshop
• Concept/theme based writing tasks
• Mini-lessons on important elements for a
  particular type of writing.
• Student-Teacher conferences.
• Sharing-critiquing, reflecting, setting writing
  goals
• Writers Notebooks

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The Writing Workshop

• The Writing Process
• Brainstorming/Prewriting
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Evaluating
• Publishing

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The 7th Grade Portfolio Checklist

• Persuasive (ethics/change)
• Narrative (perspective)
• Expository Essay (awareness/power)
• Memoir (identity)
• Various Writers Notebook entries

Peer evaluation and self-reflection is an
essential component to end each major writing task
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Meet All Deadlines!

• Most of the work for Writing Workshop is
  completed in class, which means students must be
  on task!
• Students are given ample time to finish writing
  tasks however, if an assignment is not finished
  by a deadline, they will need to finish it at
  home.

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Not a Lecture!

• Writing Workshop is student centered, which means
  all students take ownership for their learning.
• Resource Center/Mentor Text Center
• Vocab Maps
• Expert Board
• Post-it method
• Student-Teacher conferences
• Peer and self evaluation of work
• Self reflection on each genre of writing

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Grading Policy

• Published, Final Writing Tasks 50
• Writers Notebooks/ Smaller Writing Tasks- 30
• Class participation/Classwork (conferences,
  individual work and preparation of materials)- 20

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Due Dates and Contact Info

• Due dates can be checked by going to my teacher
  page and viewing the calendar.
• Email-
• llukac_at_spfk12.org