I’m excited to be your middle schooler’s English Language Arts teacher and look forward to a great year working together to ensure your child’s success. Originally from Upper Michigan, I traveled a winding path to becoming a teacher. I’ve been a missile mechanic in the U. S. Air Force, a waitress, a volunteer coordinator, and at-home mom. I graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in Secondary English Education, including a middle school endorsement. For 10+ years I taught 7-12th grade English near Green Bay, Wisconsin, and most recently I’ve taught 7th and 8th grade ELA at AMS. I have two children: a daughter Quinn, 25, and a son Joseph, 20.

I choose to teach because I believe each child can achieve strong reading and writing skills which will positively impact his or her future. Although my expectations are high, I know together we can grow these vital skills in your child.

One of my greatest beliefs is in the power of reading ~ reading anything! Because research shows good readers become good writers, I’ll ask your middle schooler to constantly have a book in hand and read as many books for pleasure as possible over the course of the year. We have an amazing classroom library with various genres of books; however, if students find something they would like to read and I don’t have it, I will find it!

look at the meme below it's very funny

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

How did the industrial revolution shape the beliefs of the romantics

Media project total score: of 100 points during the next several lessons you will create a media project about a place that is important to you, such as the place where you live. your teacher will score your assignment using the media project grading rubric. look at the rubric yourself so that you know how your assignment will be scored. you may create your project using a word processing presentation program or a slide program such as powerpoint®. include a title slide, two or three content slides, and a sources slide that contains the urls of your online sources. save the document to your computer with your name at the end of the filename (e.g., ng_ela 9-10_w_11_ga alice_jones). submit that document to your teacher for grading refer to the media project assignment document and follow the steps to complete the assignment. when you have finished, submit the assignment document to your teacher for grading.