Welcome to HMS Open House!

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Welcome to HMS Open House!
Please take your childs folder from the green
checkout folder box at the front of the room.
Enjoy the letter written to you, but please be
sure not to take it home with you. It should be
left on the desk and I will collect them. Thanks!

• ELA/Team1
• Mrs. Sullivan
• Mrs. Sullivan's Page

• Your student will be interacting with literature,
  both fiction and non-fiction, in order to become
  independent readers, writers and speakers.

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Who is Mrs. Sullivan?

• Yes- mother of 5!
• 20 years of teaching
• Elementary experience at all levels except for
  4th grade
• Dad, Me, Jason, Ashley, Meghan, Morgan and Mickey

The Sullivan Family
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Content Overview
Reading Strategies predict, question, visualize,
connect, clarify, evaluate, main idea, context
clues Story Elements characters, setting, plot,
conflict, climax, resolution Figurative Language
simile, metaphor, personification, idiom,
hyperbole Literary point of view, theme, tone,
mood, symbol, genre, authors purpose, flashback,
foreshadowing, imagery, paraphrase Poetry
stanza, line, repetition, rhythm, rhyme, free
verse, limerick, narrative Writing paragraphs,
poems, narrative essay, compare/contrast essay,
argument writing Grammar capitalization,
punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives,
subject-predicate, conjunctions (GUM workbook
used)
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• Student Responsibilities?
• Class involvement, participation, and good
  listening skills
• Careful homework completion
• Nightly reading
• Regular completion of book responses and reading
  record
• Preparation for quizzes/tests
• Awareness of class assignments

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• by Team 1/ELA

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• 5...

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• ... To see our friends again, and make some new
  ones!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• 4...

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• ... to finally have lockers.

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• 3...

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• ... because its the law!

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• 2...

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• ... to clean out the cobwebs and refill our
  brains after the summer.

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• And the 1 reason

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The Top 5 Reasons to Go Back to School!

• ... to get away from our crazy families!

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• Be sure to leave the letter and folder in class.
• Thanks for coming and have a great night!