Seventh+Grade+Language+Arts

Students At Work media type="custom" key="12447960" = A Meeting Place = The classroom wiki is a digital meeting place to build comprehensive units, display week-by-week instructional information, house homework and helpful guides for completing assignments, and communicate with students, parents, other teachers, and administrators.

A few examples displaying the multi-faceted use of the wiki include:
 * **Digital Classroom Organization **
 * Daily Presentation Tools
 * Week-by-Week Instructional Updates
 * Availability Calendars


 * **Engaging Lessons and Organized Units (Without Paper) **
 * Independent Reading, Reflections, and Recommendations
 * Novel Units
 * Book Clubs
 * Writing Units
 * Six Word Memoirs
 * The Expository Essay
 * Vocabulary Study Tools

= Collaboration = Collaboration is strongly encouraged, adaptable, and engaging when the classroom becomes both a digital and physical meeting place. Google Docs bring an interactive forum to the reading and writing lives of students. Having the flexibility of sharing live documents, working together within a live template, commenting on each other's work, or even using the chat box as an academically relevant tool allows for an engaging and collaborative classroom.

A few examples displaying the collaborative use of Google Docs include:
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading and Writing Lessons **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Remedial Reading Lesson
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 1
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 2
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 3
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Peer-Revision Writing Template
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 1
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 2
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Work Sample 3
 * Sharing Documents and Using Comments for Feedback

= Research/Choice = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">When utilizing technology in the classroom, research becomes an authentic and automatic component of daily instruction. When questions are asked, web searches should be encouraged to seek out immediate, reliable information to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate. Research lessons become intertwined within the learning of the classroom as does the creation of choice in learning and product.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A few examples displaying research and choice include:
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cross-Curricular Studies **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">World War II and The Holocaust Study
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Multi-Genre Research Paper


 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Independent Reading **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Far Beyond a "Book Report"

= Reflection/Growth = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection of growth and learning should be an element of any classroom; however, technology-driven reflections of growth and learning are manageable, engaging, and useful to students in many ways. Google Sites are a great tool to learn and apply in the classroom for portfolio creation, reflection opportunities, and growth examples. Keeping in mind the user-friendliness of Google Applications, students will be able to return to electronic documents, including an electronic portfolio, for years to come. Consider the possibilities of vertical articulation when students are using a Google Site to keep track of, reflect upon, and display growth year after year.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A few examples displaying reflection and growth include:
 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student Portfolios **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lindsay
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Josh
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cristian
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jason


 * **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">End-of-the-Year Resumes **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Resume Template

= Multi-Media Presentations = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Keeping track of student learning, growth, engagement, and empowerment once technology becomes a part of the classroom just as much as pencils, notebook paper, and binders can easily be done through video, pictures, and first-account reports from students and teachers.

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 * Instructional Video: Why Annotate?**

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