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Welcome parents and students! I am really excited about the upcoming school year, and I feel honored to have the privilege of teaching your children. I have enjoyed many years here at Lee watching students succeed and look forward to many more. Here are a few things to be checking your students for. Please have your students reading at home each night for 20 minutes. AR is taken very seriously at this school and in my class. At this time, we are still expecting the students to still meet goals, but if that changes, I will let you know. This should continue until school is out in May. Typically, I will take my students on at least a couple of field trips, but they are only allowed to go if their AR goals are met and they must not have any behavior forms (minor or major). Of course this year, all things are up in the air. Literally. We will start the year reading dystopian literature discussing their summer reading novel, The Hunger Games, moving into The Giver. The students will also be independently reading Uglies, if time permits in the first semester, on their own. Please be checking their progress. This will be another new year for all of us. I imagine it will be a day by day situation where procedures will change so please be patient with me and all of your student's teachers. Daily, we will be discussing and writing responses tied to The Giver, and there will be content/vocabulary exams. It is an excellent novel. The students will learn about utopias and other fiction elements. I will also have several other short writing/research assignments for the students to complete in class. After this, we will look at A Christmas Carol with Scrooge and the rest. There will be a bellringer every day that is generally a short reading with 5 questions that follow. These will be graded for accuracy at times, but most days for participation. Some writing lessons should be expected with some grammar lessons squeezed in. At times, I use media/film/music as a major tool teaching students terms/topics/elements with nothing exceeding a PG rating. (All of the clips come from fine examples of family entertanment) If this is a problem, please feel free to contact me. Students should be assigned laptops so hopefully that will help with the students getting their work completed. I will post in the homework link when it is assigned, but I primarily always want the kids reading a novel for at least 20 minutes per evening whether they've met their goals or not. If students can get stay in this rhythm, it will make the rest of the year much easier on him or her. If you need me for any reason, please call the school at 322-1143 ext. 2134, send me an e-mail at [email protected] or you can reach me through your child's remind app. I have no problem responding to you or your student there. Again, thank you so much for allowing me to teach your student.
We at Neville Junior High set high expectations for our students and have a great year planned for all. If you're familiar with teacher websites, then you will find this one no different. Be watching every week for assignments/reviews to be posted in homework for certain nights. Grades can be found on parent command center or this link https://jgrade.mcschools.net/jpweb/ Written work is mostly done in class so that I can help them complete the task. On some evenings, a student may have a short writing to complete, but it won't take him or her too long. I will have it assigned in homework as to which day the exam will be on and to review. Stories or novels that we read in class have assignments that are mostly finished in class, but to review the work that has been done is very important. The quizzes they take on them contain information from the activities in class. Thank you so much for allowing me to teach your student. With the new curriculum, many questions from exams can't exactly be reviewed. Please have your student attending school daily whether virtually or physically. Thank you.
For assignments, click to the left under the main menu selections where it says homework and events. Once you are there, just pick the date and double click on the word "homework" and the assignment will open in a window. Most assignments are worked on in-class, but it is very important for students to be reading their AR books at home each night for twenty minutes. All assignments will be posted on the board under the activities for the day. If you want to see current grades, go to www.mcschools.net and click under parents. Once you are there, you may log in or set up an account with parent command center. Again, if you need to contact me, I can be reached Monday through Friday from 12:50 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the school (323-1143 ext. 2134, you may send me an e-mail to [email protected],or you can send me a message through Remind. That's usually available to me all day so it's probably the quickest. Thanks for stopping by. I hope that your child not only learns many new things, but also becomes more responsible, hardworking, knowledge seeking, and dedicated...and hopefully come home every day feeling special.
Here's is a quick note about AR in case you haven't heard of it yet.
What is AR?
Dear parents,
We have been using the computer to take Accelerated Reader tests. This is a computer program that is used to test comprehension on library books that your child reads. The program uses a point system, awarding points for tests passed. A.R. books are marked with a sticker and the point value. I give a nine weeks grade for the student’s accomplishment on reaching their Accelerated Reading goal and average percentage. Your child has been assigned a goal to reach each nine weeks. He or she may choose any AR book at his or her assigned level, as long as they reach that goal with at least 90% accuracy by the end of the nine weeks. AR is worth 200 points in my Reading class so please make sure your child is meeting his or her goal. It can mean very much to a student's average. Your child will be able to look at his or her progress on a school’s computer at any time. If you have any questions, you can reach me at school with the contact information above.
Thanks,
Mr. White