Welcome to duPont Middle School!

The transition from elementary to middle school brings some exciting opportunities for you to grow as a person and student. Your teachers are here to help guide you through this time.

Middle school means changing classes and getting used to six different teachers, having lockers, and choosing from electives like art, music and computers. These changes are exciting but also require you to be more responsible and organized than you have ever been before! 

About Language Arts
We will be following Duval County’s new Learning Schedule for Language Arts, which is focused on giving all students a diverse selection of reading material and writing assignments in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.  We will be focusing our studies on: 1) strategies for reading comprehension, 2) developing writing skills through short and extended responses and essays, and 3) learning how literature affects the way we experience the world. 

Attention Parents!  Students have homework Sunday-Thursday nights for Language Arts.  Have you seen your child's Homework Reading Log?
 

Grade Breakdown and Policy

 

Projects/Exams/Final Assessments = 50%

Papers, projects, tests and quizzes

 

Class Work = 30%
Daily Assignments will count towards a student’s overall grade. This takes the form of the Reader’s Journal/Writer’s Sourcebook (kept in class and checked weekly) and classwork turned in for credit.

 

Accelerated Reader/Homework Reading Logs = 20%

 

 

Classroom Rules

1) Keep hands, feet, objects and negative comments to yourself.  Respect self and others.

2) Enter room quietly and be prepared to work.

3) No gum, food, or drinks in class.

4) Follow directions the first time given.

5) Follow all school rules (dress code, tardies, etc.)

 

Discipline Plan

If a student breaks a rule stated above, the following consequences will occur:

1) Verbal warning

2) Time-out

3) Student conference

4) Parent Contact

5) Referral