First Days of School

1. First Days of School • Day 1

2. Homeroom “To Do” List • Write your name on agenda and point sheet • Staple or tape your point sheet to agenda • Look over your schedule and make sure you know where you are going today…. • Place supply donations in the back of the room (and thank your parents when you get home today) • Organize Cobb County folder

3. HOMEROOM EXPECTATIONS • Go to breakfastin the cafeteria BEFOREcoming to homeroom. • Go to your lockerBEFOREcoming to homeroom. • You must have a passto leave homeroom. Do not got to other homerooms. • Please be seatedand readingin homeroom by 9:05.

4. To Get a Locker next week You must return the papers in the LEFThand side of your folder: • 7th Grade Student Information Sheet • Clinic card • Receipt of the Parent Information Guide

5. 7th Grade Class Schedule

6. Welcome to Advanced Content Language Arts Agenda: Attendance Week at a Glance LA Supplies Room Layout Ice Breaker Homework: Favorite Quote 5x5 HR: County paperwork

7. LA Supplies Notebook Dividers Composition or spiral (writing journal) Notebook paper Pencils/pens Flash Drive (school store) Index card donation

8. They Melt in Your Mouth…First Day Ice Breaker Getting to know you – M&M Style

9. Directions • Choose your four favorite colors from the bag of M&M’s. • Find another person that you do not know who has one of the same color M&M’s. • Share your answers to the corresponding question on the list and eat the candy. • Wait for the signal and find another person with the same color and repeat step 2. • You cannot use the same person for two colors (you must rotate for each color)

10. Conversation Starters Red – What is your favorite thing to do in your spare time? Yellow – What was your best vacation? Brown – What are your favorite stores to shop in? Orange – What are your three favorite movies? Green – What is the scariest thing you have ever done? Blue – What are you most proud of?

11. Day 2 – Thursday Agenda • Attendance • Handbook (1-8) • Commercial Break • “Rambling Autobiography” – Journal Entry Reminder: materials for binder cover; finish quickwrite (Summer Reading)

12. Benefits of Quickwrites • Bring out the writer • Build confidence • Make you think • Develop fluency • Bring out the reader • Help you grow as writers

13. Guidelines for Quickwrites • Write until time is called • “Go with the flow” • Write at least half a page • Be willing to share • We will not judge or criticize • Don’t worry you might not finish • “A Rambling Autobiography”

14. Reminders • Bring your quote tomorrow • Bring LA binder and dividers • Bring your writing journal with the first quickwrite

15. Day 3 Friday - Agenda • Quickwrite Share • Organize Binder • Acrostic (Binder cover)

16. LA Binder Tabs • Homework • Notes • Grammar • Reading • Keeper

17. Writer’s Journal Assignment Your assignment for Friday will be to personalize your LA binderwith a poemthat represents you. Somewhere on each you must include the following things: • Name Acrostic in large letters (first name and last initial) • A quote that describes you or means something important to you • Pictures (photos, clip art, magazine clippings etc.) • Words that describe you • Bright colors • Bold decorations

18. Sweet grandchildren have blessed me • Hearing the sounds of their laughter I am fulfilled • A • R • O • N • Because “Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain

19. “My Name” • http://writingout.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/session-4.pdf