
The Scoop
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Classroom Library Check out / Return
Use the form below to check out any of the classroom library books. You are not permitted to take out more than one book at a time. You have three weeks to read the book before you are requested to return it. If you need more than the allotted time, please see me as soon as possible.
Be sure to return the book and place it into the "Book Bin" near my desk.
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World Book Online
World Book Online
username: harmony2
password: husky
For more information regarding this awesome research website, visit Ms. Piazza's teacher site!
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Google Classroom
Click here to access Google Classroom.
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Sadlier-Connect Vocabulary
To access the online component of the vocabulary book, click here.
8th grade = Level C
7th grade = Level B
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Savvas (Pearson) Realize - Online Textbook
Click here to access the login page for your myPerspectives online textbook dashboard.
How to Access the Online Text:
- Follow the link to take you to the Savvas Realize dashboard.
- link is also found on my teacher website & Google Classroom
- you can also go to Savvas Realize
- Username is going to be your first name & last name separated by a period
Example: firstname.lastname - barbara.streisand
*NOTE: Some students have an individualized username - those students know who they are and are free to email me for their username.
- Passwords will be the HTS student-assigned passwords used to sign into their Google accounts.
- Follow the link to take you to the Savvas Realize dashboard.
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Grammar Practice & Help
To access our grammar practice site, No Red Ink, please click here.
For more information and grammar help, use this site.
Class Documents
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Classroom Procedures & Expectations
The 2020-2021 class handbook can be accessed HERE
Please use it as a reference throughout the school year!
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Middle School Plagiarism Policy
The Plagiarism Policy applies to not only Language Arts but all subjects in middle school.
You can become familiar with the policy by clicking here.
Schedules
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Google Classroom is where you can find the most up-to-date information pertaining to assignments and dates for any & all of my classes.
Class codes are required to access my classrooms:
- 8A:
- 8B:
- 7A:
- Student Council: students will be invited by Ms. Smith or Mrs. Mazz
Have Twitter?
Click here to follow our class to see some cool updates/photos!
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Each unit comes with an explanation letter of the highlighted content that will be covered and discussed throughout the literature unit.
Grade 8 - Unit 1: Rites of Passage Parent Letter
- Essential Question: What are some milestones on the path to growing up?
- In-class novel: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (vignette)
Grade 7 - Unit 1: Generations Parent Letter
- Essential Question: What can one generation learn from another?
- In-class novel: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (historical fiction)
Class Novels
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The House on Mango Street
Grade 8
Unit 1: Rites of Passage
The story of a "young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong — not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become." - Scholastic