You walk into the room, dreading what leers before you. The wooden floors of the room creak with your every step. You sit down at your desk, crunched into your seat as though you’re a can of sardines. “When will we get new desks?” you wonder. Last year you fit perfectly fine; but since your recent summer sprout, your knees now touch the gum under the desk when you sit.
You quickly move your leg and see a fresh wad of strawberry Bubbalicious stuck to your brand new indigo jeans. The teacher finally walks up front and says “Welcome class to English Language Arts.” His voice is nasal. Spit flies from his mouth with every syllable. And what’s worse, you have the honor of sitting in the front row of the room! “This is going to be a LONG year,” you think.
Yes my lovely students-- I know. This is the scene that some of you may have in your minds when you think of English Language Arts. But have no fear! That will certainly not be this year!
English Language Arts is all about the hip vibes and smooth rhymes of poetry; the simply human words of Pam Munoz Ryan's Esperanza Rising; the imaginative, yet SO REAL images of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson; the shocking realities of a difficult period in World History in Lois Lowry's Number the Stars; the heated debates and intellectual discussions. Come with me as we explore the adventures, curiosities, and thought provoking world of literature. Awaken your minds and put your thoughts and imaginations to paper. THIS is what ELA is all about to me.
So, what's ELA to you? Share your thoughts! Welcome to our class blog and welcome to English Language Arts!
Signing Off,
~ Ms. McKain
What ELA means to me is that you can read anything about a topic and you learn something from it. It also can give you a lesson!
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English Language Arts (or ELA) class is where you will take part in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing activities. Ela takes you places,you need to know Ela to READ.Imagine thw orld without Ela.My ELA class is awesome because we have the perfect teacher EVER ��❤��
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Good job I really agree because that is really what ela means to me.zouhair o.
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ReplyDeleteTo me Ela is the way an author can express his or her felling throughout the character there are many types of wrighting .
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What does ela mean to you? Ela means to me to express your feelings and also teach you to understand more about the story or text. It als o means
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What is Ela to me? Ela to me is expressing your feeling to other people and also learning new ideas like words of the wiser.
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What Ela means to me is the beauties of reading and writing.zouhair o.
ReplyDeletekayla m.: Ela means to me how authers or pieces of writing etc. capture people into their thoughts, and actions
ReplyDeleteTo me ELA is were you lean to show your fellings and what you are thinking of through a story or book and you make the reader get the same felling that you do just by saying the perfict words and at the end they are in perfict harmany . Stacey.L.
ReplyDeleteEla means to me to express your feelings and get better at understanding the text or story . Jesse.S
ReplyDeleteELA means to me of how the writer express themselves on paper Enry.C��
ReplyDeleteEla means to me that when u get so Instersented in a book you can't get your mind off it -valeska
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ReplyDeleteEla means that when you read a story you can better explain it because you have a group of people comment and agree and disagree
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Ela means to me reading and writing education.
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