Introduction Week
1st day of class:
Objectives:
Establish and discuss the
purpose of ELA and its
relationship to the world.
(Cognitive)
Students will interact with
everyone in the class at least
once. (Cognitive)
The teacher will work with
the students to create a warm
and welcoming environment.
(Non-cognitive)
The student will highlight
preconceived notions about
the English classroom and
what happens in Language
Arts. (Cognitive)
Assessments:
Diagnostic:
A word splash on the board
about what the importance of about what some of their
learning about English is.
Formative:
Students will begin to learn journal that they will keep
norms of the class and peers all year as their learning
names. The names might
take time.
Summative:
2nd day of class:
Objectives:
Students will showcase
their writing abilities
through a free writing
assignment. (Cognitive)
Students will demonstrate
their ability to organize and
articulate their thoughts.
(Cognitive)
Students will interact with
one another through a
community building
activity to create a positive
learning atmosphere. (Non-
cognitive)
Assessments:
Diagnostic:
Students will create a free-
write where they write
favorite things to read have
been. They can give titles,
genres, or types of texts.
They will do this in their
groups to come up with a list of
log.
Formative:
Students will continue to
practice names through
3rd day of class:
Objectives:
Students will be able to share
their personal experiences and
interests with the class in order to
form personal relationships with
peers that will extend outside the
classroom. (Non-cognitive)
Students will be able to respond
to a short reading done in class to
showcase their reading, writing
and oral language skills.
(Cognitive)
Assessments:
Diagnostic:
Students will complete a
possible sentence activity
before reading a short passage on
the anxieties of starting middle
school.
Formative:
Students will work in their table
possible reasons students could
be excited for or nervous about
middle school.
Summative:
An exit slip the student will name games and creating Students will write an exit ticket
have three questions on this name tags. about what they are
exit slip: nervous/excited about for middle
Summative: school.
What have you liked Students will complete the
in your English student interest survey.
classes in the past?
What have you not
liked about your
English classes in the
past?
What do you think
will happen in this
classroom this year?

List of Activities (in order): List of Activities (in
order):
Introduction of
teacher
The name game
students will stand up
in a circle and each
one will say their
name with an animal
that starts with the
same letter (ex. Allie
Alligator). As we go
around the room,
students will begin to
have to memorize
students names.
Word splash with the
question What do
you see as important
about learning
English Language
Arts?
Some more name
memorization ice-
breakers (if time
allows).
List of Activities (in order):
8-minute free write Do Now: students will
in their learning read short passage about
logs. They will be the anxieties and
allowed to write excitement of starting
anything. middle school.
The name game:
students will have The class will talk about
the opportunity to this passage as a group.
continue to practice
learning the names The students will
of their peers. complete a possible
Students will sentence activity.
complete the
introduction Possible sentences is a
survey. before reading strategy
Students will have that helps students think
the opportunity to about the content of a text
share three before they begin
interesting facts reading. You choose eight
from their surveys to fourteen words or
with the class. phrases from the text. The
students then write five
possible sentences that
might appear in the text
using three to five of the
given words in each
 sentence.

Students will then work

in groups to brainstorm a
list of some more reasons
students might be excited
or nervous about middle
school.

The class will discuss

these reasons as a group.
The teacher will call on
every group to share
something.

The teacher will place

paper bags on each
students desks; the
teacher will explain the
About Me bag.

The About Me bag will

be for homework. They
will put toys, drawings,
letters, and anything in
the bag that will give us
an introduction into their
lives. They will bring it
for the next class.

Lastly, students will write

an exit ticket about what
they are nervous/excited
about for middle school.