Osborne Middle Curriculum Night

1. Osborne Middle Curriculum Night Welcome Parents

2. Academic Knowledge and Skills • Math- Operations among rational number, Ratios/Proportions, Introduction to Algebra (solving simple equations, simplifying expressions), Applications to Geometry and Statistics. • Science- Earth Science (astronomy, hydrology, ecology, etc.) • Social Studies- Geography, government, history, environment, economics, and culture of Europe, Canada, Latin America, and Australia • Language Arts- Focus on the writing process and reading both fiction and non-fiction.

3. Reading: There is a focus on reading through both fiction and non-fiction. We will be utilizing different lengths of reading. From articles, to short stories, to novels, to poetry, students will be exposed to reading strategies, story elements, and figurative language. There will be a focus on analyzing text and citing supporting evidence from the text. Grammar: Grammar will be taught through reading, writing, and warm-ups.

4. Active Reading Strategies Previewing PredictingVisualizingQuestioningConnectingSummarizingClarifyingEvaluating • Locate evidence within the text that is EXPLICITY stated to support ideas or events. • Examine how the theme or central idea is made UNDERSTANDABLE through literary details in a text. • CITE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE to support analysis of what I am reading. • I will USE the EVIDENCE CITED from the text to SUPPORT the CONCLUSIONS I drew from the text.

5. What is the difference between argument and persuasion? A persuasive essay … • makes claims based on opinion • may not address opposing ideas • persuades by appealing to the audience’s emotion or by relying on the character or credentials of the writer and less on the merits of his or her reasons and evidence • often emotion-based • May be written using first person pronouns An argumentative essay… • Makes claims based on factual evidence • Makes counter-claims, takes opposing views into account • Neutralizes or defeats serious opposing ideas • Convinces audience through the merit and reasonableness of the claims and proofs offered • Logic-based • Not written in first person

6. Focus on Writing Workshop for Parents: What to Expect: • Learn how to help your child become a better writer. • Learn how writing is assessed in middle school. • Look through your child’s writing portfolio. Workshop Date and Times: November 12, 2013 Morning Session: 10:00 – 12:00 Evening Session: 6:30 – 8:30 • In 6th grade LA, your child will have two major writing pieces each semester. • 1st 9-weeks: Argumentative • 2nd 9-weeks: Informational • 3rd 9-weeks: Informational • 4th 9-weeks: Essay with SS

7. Promotion Criteria6th Grade • Students must pass 4 out of 5 classes each semester. • Connections are averaged as one class. • LA and Math MUST be 2 of the 4 academic classes passed. • If a child does not pass LA or Math the first semester, summer school is an option for grade recovery. • If a child does not pass a full year of either Math or LA, he or she will be retained.

9. Registering for the Parent Portal • How to sign up: • Complete a simple registration form – available from teachers tonight OR on the OMS website • Validate form in person at OMS – visit the Parent Portal table in the main lobby tonight • Watch your email for a message from Go2; this email will contain instructions and a token for accessing the portal • Registration carries over from year to year and school to school; completing a new form each year is unnecessary

10. What information is available in the Parent Portal? • Attendance • Current schedule • Current grades • Individual assignments • Overall grade in each class • Discipline information • Past middle school grades • Test Scores

11. Student Profile Page The Student Profile Page provides a snapshot of current information as well as links to more detailed data.

12. Current Schedule The Current Schedule page lists the student’s classes as well as the current grade in each class. Clicking on a Course Name will list all assignments and grades for that particular course. This information is updated nightly.

13. The Attendance page provides details about a student’s daily attendance and identifies excused and unexcused absences as well as tardies. This information is updated nightly.

14. The Attendance page provides details about a student’s daily attendance and identifies excused and unexcused absences as well as tardies. This information is updated nightly.

15. Problems? • Problems with registration or accessing the Portal? Contact the main office. • Questions about your child’s grades? Contact the teacher.

16. Student Portal

17. http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps-mainweb01.nsf

18. Parents and Students can also access the portal using Osborne’s website:

19. Students should access “My E-Class” using their student ID for their username and password (Students may have been asked to change their password to have an “s” in front of their ID).

20. When logging into My E-Class, students can click on their textbook and view their grades.

21. Math eBook

22. Chapters and Lessons can be selected from the scroll down menu

23. Tutoring videos Extra Worksheets Quick checks with feedback

24. Science Book

30. Writing in Content Area • Students will be writing essays in language arts, science, and social studies each nine weeks. • In science and social studies, subject area ideas are weighted as 70% of the students’ overall essay grade. Organization, style, and conventions make up the other 30% of essay grades. • Each student is writing to demonstrate understanding of subject related concepts.

31. Day 1 to Day 5 • Day 1 Prewriting-using notes and text to gather Specific Details and organize ideas onto a graphic organizer. • Day 2 Rough Draft • Day 3 Rough Draft • Day 4 Revise and Edit with both Science teacher, for Ideas, and Language Arts teacher, for Conventions and Organization. • Day 5 Final Draft Written in Class Due

32. Example of Depth of Developmentin Score Point 1 Plat Tachtonics is when the Earthe moves because of plats. When the plats move we shake Like a earthquake when a earthqak happens the Earth moves. Convection currents move tectonic plats because it spins in that is how convection corrents move Tectonic plates. Covergent boundarys are a sort of movment in the Earth. Convergent Boundarys could mak mountions. Divergent Boundarys make tranches like underwater. Tranfsorm Boundary is a EarthQuak. Earthquak moves the ground. Like shaking it so we would move to. The plate tactonics was fun to tell you about it but I have to Development is relevant but it is very limited. What to say to this student? More detail related to convection currents and the movement of tectonic plates.

33. Example of Depth of Development in Score Point 2 By now you should know about the Techtonic plates, but so what they’re moving, but you don’t know what happens on the surface, when they decide to move! (explain to the reader how tectonic plates move; remember convection currents?) There are three things that happen, First a convergent boundry. A boundry where a plate, such as an oceanic plate “dives” under another plate, such as a continental plate. When this happens, the oceanic plate dives under the continental plate, the oceanic plate melts, but after melting it forms a pocket on the crust and eventually forms a volcano. Why dose it sink under, the ocean plate is dencer than the continental so it sinkes like a dime in a glass of water. Second a convergent (i.e., divergent) boundary, this boundry is where two plates are moving apart because a crack in the earth that is constantly letting magma in from the mantle, that is cooling and cooling untill it pushes them apart. Last, but not least, a transform boundry, this occurs when two plates try to slip by each other. If they get stuck the longer they stay there the longer the following earthquake will be. The writer incorporates relevant details, some specific, just not many of them. I included some comments I would give to the student. In particular, the writer needs to respond to the first aspect of the question: how convection currents produce movement of tectonic plates.

34. Example of Depth of Development in Score Point 3 Our Earth is amazing, it can function all on its own without any help. Earth moves, cracks, and changes all by itself. Earth also has 6 layers that make it up. Each layer is unique in its own way. The Lithosphere is one of the most important, it carries the tectonic plates, the Earth’s crust is above. The convection currents in the Asthenosphere are what moves the plates. Earth has nine plates total, that pull apart and crash together. Convection currents move the tectonic plates, the currents occur in the Asthenosphere. The heat and pressure in the Asthenosphere cause the currents to slowly move. Just above the currents is the plates, and the motion from the convection causes the plates to slowly move. They will only move a few inches a year. The tectonic plates pull apart and crash together at plate boundaries, causing major geologic events. At plate boundaries the movement can cause three major types of boundaries, transform, divergent, and convergent. At a divergent boundary the two plates move apart. This can cause a rift valley or an Earthquake. At convergent boundaries the two plates collide. At a transform boundary the two plates slip past each other. The movement caused the theory of pangea and continental drift.(Explain more about the events that occur at these boundaries) The convection currents cause the plates to move. Therefore that causes many major geologic events to occur on the Earth. This is how landforms come about and why the Earth is cracked. These geological events are always occurring. They might be slow but they really do happen. This is how plate movement causes change on Earth’s surface.

35. Example of Depth of Development in Score Point 4 Have you ever realized that what you are standing on is constantly moving in slow motion? The lithosphere is a solid plate that is separated into two parts. The crust, and the mantle. Well upper mantle. In the asthenosphere, a liquid layer of the upper mantle, convection currents slowly move about two centimeters a year, causing the lithosphere’s plates to slowly move. Convection currents causes this which convection is heat transferred into a fluid. As the earth gets hotter every day, convection currents are still moving slowly in constant motion. While this is occurring in the asthenosphere, the lithosphere is still floating above, which means if the asthenosphere is moving, so is the solid lithosphere. Tectonic plates are apart of the lithosphere, so that explains the plates slowly moving in constant motion. There are many tectonic plates on our crust. And on that, millions on boundaries are occurring. At convergent boundaries the compression builds up as the continental plates collide creating mountain ranges. When there are two oceanic plates colliding at convergent boundaries, island arcs are formed and deep ocean trenches are formed. Also at convergent boundaries compression still builds up and eventually a reverse fault will form. At divergent boundaries tension is building up and eventually a normal fault will occur. (explain further) If there are two continental plates at divergent boundaries a rift valley will form and eventually magma will rise! At transform boundaries shearing builds up and when the two continental plates shear a strike-slip fault strikes. (explain further) When there is a continental and an oceanic plate colliding at convergent boundaries the more dense oceanic plate will sink and at deep ocean trenches the subduction will cause a volcano to forma and eventually erupt! So everything about the theory of tectonic plates slowly moving in constant motion is very important because of these natural disasters, it may someday effect you! Effective use of specific details but development related to each of the three types of boundaries is not quite as extensive as you see in the “5’s” (see next slide).

36. Example of Depth of Development in Score Point 5 If you did not know, there are many interesting things about the Earth’s tectonic plates. In the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth’s lithosphere is broken into plates that are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is the soft layer on which the lithosphere, a rigid layer, floats. Convection currents move the lithospheric plates. The heat is from the core. Particles get less dense and therefore rise. Since the asthenosphere is soft and flexible, convection currents are able to form. The convection currents then move the lithospheric plates which are above it. The movement creates three different boundaries. Convergent boundaries are where plates move toward each other. It makes the stress compression. It is like squeezing your face together. This also forms a reverse fault. A reverse fault is where the hanging wall is upward. Land forms are also created. When two continental plates collide, mountain ranges form. When an oceanic plate dives under a continental plate, subduction takes place. Subduction also forms trenches. Subduction makes oceans smaller, like the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes in the process a trench swallows a lot of the ocean, and that is what is happening with the Pacific, whereas the Atlantic is growing. Another boundary is the divergent boundary. It is where plates move away from each other. Its stress is tension. The fault this forms is called a normal fault, where the footwall is higher. This boundary also creates landforms. A rift valley forms where two plates diverge from each other. An example of a divergent boundary landform is the mid-ocean ridge. It is the longest mountain chain in the world. The last boundary is the transform boundary. It is when plates move in opposite directions. Its stress is called shearing. The fault this creates is called a strike-slip fault. Again, this is where plates move in opposite directions. An earthquake forms when the stress on a fault gets so intense that it snaps. This is yet another landform that can be created due to tectonic plates and more specifically in that category, stress. You might not have thought about that tectonic plates and the boundaries, stresses, and faults they form are interesting, but I hope that now you see that they are very cool. Heavy reliance on specific details and the writer goes into great detail when discussing all three boundaries. Well done!

37. Document Based Questioning, Reading and Writing Document Based Questions (DBQ) promote rigorous reading and writing instruction for all students. Reading smart, thinking straight and writing clearly are skills that all young people must possess as they continue their education and prepare for their place in the global economy. 1. Encourage students to read like detectives. Questions can only be answered through close attention to the details of the text.
 2. DBQs offer students a sampling of non-fiction texts and documents. Students examine maps, letters, charts, graphs, cartoons, historians’ accounts, diaries, advertisements, photographs, flyers and more. 3. Answers to DBQs are text-dependent. By definition, DBQ essays are evidence-based. 4. DBQs require students to build knowledge from multiple sources. 5. Students encounter appropriately complex texts, thus helping them develop mature language skills and conceptual knowledge. 6. Students are exposed to short texts at times beyond their current grade level.
 7. DBQs require students to use writing to organize their thinking. 8. DBQs provide students with the opportunity to experience the flow that exists between reading, thinking, speaking, listening, and writing. 9. DBQs require students to focus on the elements of good writing, drawing evidence from texts while demonstrating sufficient command of standard English.

38. On My Calendar • Attendance • Located on OMS home page • Teacher resource (located under “staff” menu) • Homework posted daily • Upcoming quizzes and tests • In math, answers to homework are also posted daily for students to check their work • Additional practice resources