Mrs. Stoler

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	September 2, 2010


	Mrs. Stoler


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	Challenge Language Arts for 8th grade and Challenge English, Literature and Social Studies for 6th grade

	Welcome! Welcome to my webpage! I hope you will visit here often. I will post my weekly calendar and will often put worksheets and rubrics on here as well for you to download if you can't find your copy or if you are ill and can't make it to school. For parents, I will put messages about upcoming events that might be of interest to you as well as community service opportunities. I will also include reminders of sign-ups for happening and when progress reports and report cards are coming home. If you ever have any questions or suggestion, please feel free to e-mail me. I want to make this site as user-friendly as possible.






	I have voice mail, but I sometimes miss checking my phone for messages. If I don't respond to you within 48 hours, please try again or call the office and ask to leave a message in my box. Thanks! I check my e-mail (carol.stoler@vansd.org) several times a day. Feel free to leave me a message to give you a call if you'd like to talk with me personally or just type a message and I'll get back to you that afternoon.






	Meeting Gifted Students' Emotional Needs An Interview with Sal Mendaglio: About Meeting the Emotional Needs of Gifted Children and Adolescents

	Summer Transitioning for Gifted Students Transitioning Your Gifted Child from School Year to Summer Vacation Citation: From The SENG Update. May 2010 Author: By Missy Hand Bedell Online

	WAETAG site Washington ASsociation of Educators of the Talented and Gifted website. I have attended a number of their conferences and found that parents belong to this group as well. They helped get funding for gifted programs.

	Supplies Needed for Challenge Language Arts Classes Here's the suppy list now so you can hit the school sales when they occur.

	COMMUNITY SERVICE

	Community Service Requirement

	Free Rice + S.A.T. words For every thousand grains of rice donated, I will give you 10 minutes of Community Service time. Please attach a print out of the screen showing your donation. You may only do this for one hour of your five hours required.

	Community Service Ideas Here is a list of possible service projects you can do to earn your hours. Contact me if you need any help setting something up or if you have another idea.

	Service Hours Form This is the form to mark down your hours. Please keep it to turn in at the end of the trimester.

	SYLLABI

	6th Grade Syllabus for 10-11 year

	Syllabus for 7th/8th grade for 09-10 year

	What you can do at home to help your child Here is a list of twelve ways you can help make your child's educational experience a good one both at school and at home. This list is created from information in The Mind of Boys by Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens and other studies I've read about how students learn best.


	RUBRICS

	6-Trait Writing Rubric

	Essay Rubric

	Project Rubric

	Presentation rubric

	Powerpoint Presentation Rubric

	Discussion Rubric Used for Socratic Seminars and other discussions we have in class.

	Compare/Contrast Essay Rubric

	Persuasive Writing Rubric

	Journal Rubric

	PROCESS PAPERS

	Process Paper This one is used for an essay or paragraph, not a story.

	Process Paper for stories

	Process Paper for a Project

	Process Paper for Power Point

	Process Paper for Letter

	Process Paper for News Article

	WRITING FORMS

	Figurative Language Chart

	Figurative Language Definitions

	Compare/Contrast outline

	Persuade Me Here are some worksheets to help you through the process of writing a persuasive piece.

	Bibliography Format This is the MLA format with great color-coding. Make sure you scroll down for further directions in formatting the whole page.

	Elaboration Strategies

	Introduction Strategies

	Introduction/Conclusion Checklist

	Elaboration Scoring Guide

	Listing vs. Layering Examples

	Proofreading Check List updated with Elaboration strategies



	Literature Study Group Worksheets Below, please find the Literature Study Group worksheets for each of the jobs.

	Literature Group Meetings Here is the form with your literature group members' names and what the various jobs are in case you lost yours or didn't bring it home.

	Discussion Director

	Artful Artist

	Passage Picker

	Word Finder

	Connector

	Journal Writing Descriptions Here is a page with possible journal writing ideas.

	What if... Used for understanding characters in books. This is the one where you figure out what the character would be like if he/she came to Mac.

	Reading Strategies Included are SOAPSTone, Levels Questions, Yes/No/But, and SIFT

	Literary Genres Description of Various Genres

	Plot Worksheet

	More Project Ideas

	Even more project ideas



	Check out Media Center Web Page Check out MAC's Media Center page for great lists of books to read that prepare students for high school, college and beyond. This is also a great resource for grammar links, encyclopedia sources,etc...

	Proofreading Sheet for your editor (and you!)

	Proofreading your own essay




	CLASS CALENDAR

	Logos, Pathos and Ethos chart In case you can't remember what these mean, here's the chart I handed out in class.

	Steps for Persuasive Essay

	SMART Goals form

	SOAPSTone form

	Higher Level Thinking Chart This chart visually shows the different levels with verbs to help you remember what they are.

	Higher Level Thinking Skills There are question stems and activities for each of the various levels to help you better understand and choose projects that show higher level thinking.

	PIRATES form Here's the form you can use to analyze how these various elements are shown through your texts.

	Back of PIRATES form

	List of Tone + Mood words Here are lists of positive, neutral and negative tone and mood words you can use when trying to decide what the author's attitude is (Tone) and what sort of emotion he/she is trying to elicit from readers (mood).



	How to Write a Literary Analysis

	Literary Analysis Outline

	Proofreading your own essay This is the form for reviewing your own essay.

	Proofreading Sheet for your editor (and you!)




	Pink Monkey site This is is a "G" rated study resource for you to use. What does PinkMonkey offer you? The World's largest library of free online Literature Summaries, with over 460 Study Guides / Book Notes / Chapter Summaries online currently, and so much more.

	Spark Notes This is another site to go to if you want to read more about the book you are reading and read some discussion questions, insights into character traits and themes as well as a reminder to you of what happened in each chapter. (I still expect you to READ your book!)

	Tween Tribune This is a great place to stay up-to-date with current events. It's even written for teens! It has received lots of praise from highly regarded news people as well.

	Library's Teen Summer Reading Program Join the Teen Summer Reading Program and earn prizes while enjoying some good books. Let me know of any truly great books you read!

	Ft. Vancouver Regional Library Site

	Possible Summer Reading Choices This is a site I found with a rather extensive summer reading list, complete with descriptions of each of the books geared for students in grades 6-8. If you are looking for possible books to read over the summer, you might check out this site. It is dated 2006, but the book lists are still good!

	International Reading Association list of best new books Need a good book suggestion? Check this out! Every year, IRA publishes a young adult's list of the best new books. Here's the link.

	ALAN site This site for ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of NCTE) has a wonderful list of books Young Adults might enjoy. There is a spot for corresponding with authors as well as other students.

	The Columbian Newspaper online Check here for current events and to see how to write different types of articles.

	The Oregonian online Here's another source for news and to see how to write different types of newspaper articles.

	CNN.com

	BBC.com This is a British site with a focus on International News. Often there are video clips and great slide shows of pictures of the week.