Middle School English Language Arts is taught to common core standards. The learning goals of this class are to reinforce and expand learners' knowledge of literature, literary devices, grammar, language usage, speaking and listening skills, making presentations, writing, analyzing arguments, conducting research, and completing a research paper. 

I have a master of arts degree in American history, and bachelor of arts degrees in political science, English, and communications with a journalism emphasis. I am lead teacher at The Foster Woods Folk School, which focuses on humanities education within an ecosocial justice framework aimed at celebrating and improving our connections as a global community of humans and non-humans living on Planet Earth. In this role, I work with learners of all ages with a primary focus of working with learners in grades three through 12. I was the director of a social justice center for three years during which time I routinely taught about and facilitated conversations about historical and current political events for both teen and adults participants. Before that, I was a newspaper editor and reporter for 15 years. I have been teaching history, social studies, and English Language Arts classes for several years. 

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Following each class, learners will have a reading assignment, journal prompt to which they respond, and a grammar, language usage, or literary device worksheet or short project. There will be short presentations and projects assigned four times each unit. At the end of Unit 1, a book report is due. At the end of Unit 2, a campaign project is due. At the end of the course, a five-page research paper is due. 
수업 외 주당 2 - 4 시간
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Learners are assessed on weekly homework, participation in live classes, journal entries, projects, and the research paper. 

The final grade is calculated as 70 percent from unit homework and 30 percent from the research paper. 

The Unit 1 grade is 90 percent weekly homework and 10 percent from the book report. 
The Unit 2 grade is 90 percent from weekly homework and 10 percent from the human rights campaign project. 
The Unit 3-4 grade is 90 percent from weekly homework and 10 percent from research paper scaffold assignments. 

The weekly homework grades are: 
25 percent language worksheets
25 percent speaking, listening, and class participation
50 percent journal responses 

Students receiving a final grade of C (70 percent) or greater will be issued a letter of completion reflecting the final grade. 
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All student workbooks are graded throughout the course. 

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Echoes & Reflections: Teaching the Holocaust Inspiring the Classroom, Facing History and Ourselves, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, "Night" by Elie Wiesel, "Watership Down" the movie, "The Story of Night" from the "New York Times," Oprah Winfrey's interview with Elie Wiesel video, "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel, Martin Niemöller, “First They Came…”, "Never Shall I Forget" by Elie Wiesel, “One Friday Morning” by Langston Hughes, “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, “One of These Days” by Gabriel García Márquez, “The Friday Everything Changed” by Anne Hart, “The Aged Mother” By Matsuo Bashō, “The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian” by Alphonse Daudet, “Excerpt from Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse” by Anna Sewell, “Identity” by Julio Noboa, “The Blind Men and the Elephant” by John Godfrey Saxe, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale, “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.