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Waynesville Middle School
Course Syllabus
2023-2024
Teacher: Kelly Howley Email: khowley@waynesville.k12.mo.us Room: 13 Phone: 573-842-2550 ext. 3337
Course Title and Grade: 7th & 8th grade Specialized Instruction
Team: White Conference hour- 6th hour- M & F- 12:25-1:11 Wed.- 12:56-1:43
Course Objectives: Objectives will be presented in the relevancy to life skills.
Communication Arts
- I can use a variety of reading strategies to improve reading and comprehension skills.
- I can determine how two or more story elements are related.
- I can compare the structure of two or more texts.
- I can write to share information supported by details.
Math:
- I can match two similar geometric shapes that are proportional in size and the same orientation.
- I can match two-dimentional shape with a three dimensional shape that shares an attribute.
- I can recognize angles that are acute, obtuse, and right.
- I can compare quantities represented as decimals in real-world examples to tenths and hundredths.
Social Studies:
- I can construct maps.
- I can use maps, graphs, timelines, charts and diagrams to interpret, draw conclusions and make predictions.
- I can evaluate the importance of the discovery, exploration and early settlement of America.
Science:
- I can compare amounts/measurements.
- I can use quantitative and qualitative data as support for reasonable explanations (conclusions).
- I can communicate the procedures and results of investigations and explanations through: oral presentations, drawings, maps, data tables, graphs and writing.
Classwork, Tests, Projects:
- Pre and Post-Assessments will be given for each unit. Pre-tests will not count as a grade.
- Projects will be done in class, individually and in small groups
Classroom expectations:
Be Respectful. Be Responsible. Be a Learner.
Students must be in the classroom before the tardy bell rings, prepared with a pencil. Students must raise their hands to speak and be respectful of the teacher and their peers at all times. If the student doesn’t abide by the basic rules above for all minor offenses, the teacher will: (1) talk to the student privately, (2) have the student complete a Think Sheet (3) contact the parent, (4) submit an office referral. All major offenses will be referred to a principal. Students must turn in all completed assignments legibly and correctly on or before the due date. It is the student’s responsibility to ask the teacher for assignments when absent. If the student needs academic assistance, he must inform the teacher (and his/her parent) that he/she will be staying after school for help. The student must also arrange transportation home at 4:00pm or ride the afterschool bus at 5:15pm if he stays for academic assistance.
Daily Work: complete daily assignments when assigned. When they are not completed in class, work will be completed during Tiger Time.