First Day of SchoolWELCOME TO 7TH GRADE.

Supplies

Pencils. Try to get mechanical. You don’t have to sharpen them. .5 or .7.

Multicolor Highlighters. Don’t get markers. I or other teachers will take them.

Pens Bic and the cheap ones. Blue or black. College rule paper. Don’t buy wide rule Kleenex. I don’t always have them.

Schedules

Follow your schedule as it is writing. Do not go up to the counselor and ask to change rooms. If you are having problems get your parents involved.

If you have a double class or a P.E. class that you should not be in, go to the counselor that period. If it’s a double, go to the class the first time, and the second time, go to the counselor.

Out of Classroom

You will not be let out to go to the counselors, bookstore, P.E. or any place else.

Bathroom passes are in your planner Nurse pass is given by me Don’t ask to go to P.E. at any time.

Hand outs

Planners will be handed out. We will be going over pages 55-56 and 59-60 together. Math will cover the rest of the planner.

I will hand out the statement of awareness papers too. Please sign and turn in.

Friday folders are folder I will hand out and it a place to carry papers home on Friday.

Rules

No talking when I am talking.

No smart comments while I am teaching

Do your work when it is time to work. No doing the work at home and do nothing in class.

Act appropriate in class. No clowns.

No standing

Do not stand by the door waiting for the bell to ring.

Procedures

No running into class. Need to be here on time. We have tardy sweeps.

Have all materials ready to go. If you need a pencil, ask some before we start the class. Don’t ask me once class has started.

Write down what we are going to do in class. You shouldn’t have to ask me what we are doing in class for that day.

If you know what we are doing, you shouldn’t have to wait for me. Just do it. You are not in elementary school any more.

Work the whole period.

Electronics

Relates to Phones, tablets, Ipod or Ipads. Watch out We have thieves. You might be able to use them. If they go off, turn them off and put them

away. Don’t try using them when you are not

suppose to.

Where is everything

Bathroom. We have only three minutes in between classes.

Library

Computer rooms.

Where to go up and down. 7th grade side and 8th grade side.

Lunch room and what is a la carte.

Music and P.E.

Office

Bookstore

Fire Drill

Where to line up. What path to go on. Where do go to wait. How to act in line. What can we do when we come back from the

fire drill. Where to go Where to stand

Evacuation

Where do we go. What is the difference between this and a firedrill.

We will go to the football field. Map

Off site evacuation

Where do we go. Why. How will parents come get us. Map

Outline of the school year

You will be typing your papers in my class. Not all of them but some of them. Be ready.

First quarter will be Narratives Plot and all of its components. Second quarter will be Argumentative. Main idea and inferences Third quarter will be Information

Website

http://www.mpsaz.org/taylor/staff/bjdavis/ Why is this important No extra time for missing work