Welcome to Seventh Grade Language Arts!   

Welcome class of 2009-2010!

Before we begin, a word about Wiki Etiquette:

1. Be safe. Use only your acronym and period number, and never post the city you're in. This helps protect both you and your classmates.

2. Be smart. All classroom expectations apply. Respect for yourself, your classmates, and your teacher is a constant. Violating any classroom expectations online will be dealt with in the same manner they are dealt with during the normal school day. The Wiki and the Ning are simply extentions of our classroom.

     You may not post nonsense material to get a laugh out of your fellow classmates, you may not edit pages without authorization, and under no uncertain terms may you NOT "Cyber-bully" a fellow student using our classroom technology. The Internet is vastly useful, is fun, and as I hope to demonstrate . . . educational.

     If you didn't do an assignment, don't lie. Your page history can be viewed by me.  PBWORKS saves every 30 seconds, or something like that, so if you started an assignment it will be on your page history.

     Unfortunately, the internet also encourages a sense of anonimity that occasionally causes individuals to feel invincible, but remember, all resources attached to this classroom can be viewed by me, and I can trace everyone's identity--when in doubt, DON'T.

Summer Reading Suggestions:

Good Reads:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4.Best_books_of_2008?page=1

Reading Rants:

http://www.readingrants.org/ 

Here's a book list organized by theme (adventures, mystery, etc):

http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readtheme-sel.html

Boy Meets Book

http://www.talestoldtall.com/BoyMeetsBook.html

Create your own "FRONT" page.  

Here is how you will do that:

1.  Go to your period folder on the right (it's yellow) and click on 'Create a New Page'

2.  The title of your page must include the acronym for your name (first two letters of your last name and the first three letters of your first name), but you can add to that.  Remember to be school appropriate. 

3. Click 'create.' Next you will see a new page and you will be in the 'edit mode."  Introduce yourself.  Click on 'save.'  You're done with your FRONT page for now.  See number 4 below.

4. See "current assignments" to see what you will type on this FRONT page.

Front page requirements click here

Second page requirements click here

Current Assignments

Here is where you will always find the directions for the current classroom assignment.

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