Welcome to Mr. Wieland's Web Page

Mr. Wieland and an old friend in the Cascades.

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Thanks for visiting! You will find links here for all of the classes I teach. There will also be a number of current assignments that you will be able to print out from home if you need them. Link to Social Studies or Language Arts at left to get printable assignments from social studies and English. Community Experience and Cultural Event directions are on the social studies page.

I teach 7th grade social studies and language arts blocks at IMS, and two electives: Backyard Forest and Science Fiction. Sci-Fi is only offered during the winter trimester.
Elective classes have both 7th and 8th graders in them.

Please note that, while this site is updated daily, it is also a work in progress and is under construction. There may not be complete information on all of its pages.

Mr. Wieland's phone number at IMS is: 425-837-6807
Mr. Wieland's e-mail at IMS is: wielandk@issaquah.wednet.edu
Mr. Wieland's webpage: you're there!

Thursday, March 18th

Family Access:

Latest update: Thursday, March 18th

No late or absent work or AR test results accepted after 3:30 on Tuesday, March 16th unless you have an extenuating circumstance and have talked with Mr. Wieland about this.

Extra credit was inputted on Thursday by all students who did the available assignment.

Go Kansas Jayhawks! In SSR, we drew the #1 seed team in the NCAA Tournament! Window decorating days on Monday and Tuesday, next week.

All-School Write:

Packets went home to parents today concerning the up-coming March 19th IMS All-School Write. We will need parents willing to be trained in scoring essays to evaluate anonymous student papers. The last training sessions for parents in October were interrupted by the flu outbreak we had, so if you would like to pick up where you left off, or help us out as a new trainee, please see the info. packet for the training dates! Thank you!

Parents: As you will recall, the 7th grade teachers sent home a letter in October outlining our concerns with the lack of homework and class work completion in the first trimester. I continue to be concerned in the second trimester about the lack of effort and haphazard work completion in my classes and have had numerous conversations with all the students, even those with the best grades, about "coasting" through the seventh grade. Nightly homework is not usually required in my humanities block, but your student should be bringing home assignments to complete several times a week, at least, and should be asked to produce proof of progress on on-going work for you. I update grades at least three times weekly, so you can be completely apprised about how your student is performing. Many students are racking up a startling number of incompletes and zeroes in the grade book.

I am available after school Tuesdays and Thursdays, and occasionally on Wednesdays, if your student needs extra help or a quiet, supervised work space.

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Ongoing work:

Comparison-Contrast Essays have been returned and should be placed in your SSR portfolio.

1. Persuasive Writing

A. Persuasive Letter, Step One

Your prompt: The PE department is going to cut one unit next year. Persuade your current PE teacher which unit he or she should cut. You are working on a hook, further information and a thesis statement in your introductory paragraph. Due on Tuesday, 3/16. Write on the worksheet, please.

B. Persuasive Letter, Step Two

Skeleton of paragraphs 2-5. Directions given in class on Thursday-- you had 25 minutes of work time to complete. Due Monday, 3/22.

2. Literature

Read Bill Cosby and Dave Barry essays on pp. 494-504 in the
literature anthology. The essays are "The Only Girl in the World for Me" and "Breaking the Ice." They are both very funny! The questions for both were due on Thursday, 3/18.

3. Community Experience Project:

This is the year-long 7th grade project, which involves cultural events, interview of a community service provider and 12 or more hours of community service. Keep the directions in your notebook all year. Extras are available on the social studies page. See Mr. Wieland if you have any questions about the requirements for this project. "Where to Care" packets are available for overnight checkout.

Cultural Events

Your next (and final) cultural event, #5, will be due on Wednesday, April 21st.

4. History Alive:

Chapter 22- Japan

                We're working on our final History Alive
                skits for next Tuesday, 3/23. You are
                working in your castle groups to create
                two short skits on two aspects of
                samurai life in medieval Japan.

5. Red Scarf Girl, our final novel of the
year, will be issued on Monday, 3/22.

Science Fiction

Final Projects were due by Thursday, 3/18 at 3:00. These will be graded on Friday afternoon. Please retrieve your data drive if you loaned it to me.

All-School Read in 1st period tomorrow. Bring pencils, notebook paper and a novel to read.

Thanks for an enjoyable trimester-- you were a great group of students. I hope you enjoyed your forays into the worlds of science-fiction!

Klaatu! Barada! Nikkto!

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