About the Class

NAME: Mrs. Patterson-Reddin

SCHOOL: St. Joseph Catholic School

CLASS: 7-3

E-mail: mreddin@archkckcs.org


About The Class

7th Grade Reading
Description: Students will experience many types of reading, writing, and 
listening activities in the classroom.
Goals:
*Apply strategies and skills to read, understand, interpret and evaluate a 
wide  
   range of texts.
*Read a variety of literature and interact with media and technology to gain 
   knowledge.
Expectations:
*Students are expected to follow the Guiding Principles of respect, honesty, 
   responsibility and trustworthiness.
*Students are expected to be on time and prepared for class.
*Students are responsible for recording their assignments and turning their 
   homework in on time.
Evaluation:
* Students will be graded on daily work, participation, quizzes, tests and 
projects. 
Students will have some class time to work on their assignments. Typically, 
an assignment is due the next day. The amount of homework varies with what we 
are working on, so I suggest that students use a planner to help them stay 
organized.
Makeup Work:
 It is the student’s responsibility to find out what is missed in class when 
he/she is absent (check Teacher Web). For every absence, the student will 
receive three days to make up work and turn it in. If a test or quiz is 
missed, a time will be scheduled between the student and teacher.

8th Grade Language Arts
Description:
Students will experience many types of writing and speaking activities in the 
language arts classroom while continuing to work on language structure and 
conventions.
Goals:
*Write to communicate effectively with different audiences for multiple
   purposes.
*Apply knowledge of language structure and conventions.
*Apply listening, speaking and viewing skills to acquire knowledge and to 
   communicate effectively with a variety of audiences for specific purposes.
Expectations:
Same as 7th grade expectations (see above)
Evaluation:
Students will be graded on daily work, participation, tests and projects.
Students will have some class time to work on their assignments. Typically an 
assignment is due the next day. The amount of homework varies with what we 
are working on. So I suggest that students use some type of planner to help 
them stay organized.

Makeup Work: Same as 7th grade (located above)