Mr. Caprow's Class
By Tracey Acosta Mr. Caprow is a fun 7th grade language arts and social studies teacher. He is in room 210 and sometimes he will tell you a story about the past of something that happened to him that is related to what we are learning.
For language arts, when you first come into the classroom he will have the class read a book of your choice. After that we will occasionally do some work from the sentence combining book. Mr. Caprow also has us read books as a class. Usually he would give us a certain amount of chapters for homework and do a writing assignment like write a summary for each chapter.
During the school year he will give you a bunch of books, but these two specific books: King Arthur and Arabian Nights. What is special about these two books is that Mr. Caprow will give you an assignment in which you have to pick a section of the book, write a script in your group of four, and perform a skit in front of the whole class, and you will be graded on it.
Mr. Caprow also gives vocabulary quizzes, made up of two parts. The first part you have to write the word he says with the correct spelling on a sheet of binder paper, then for part two he gives you a fill in the blanks type of paper and you put the correct vocabulary word in the correct blank.
Mr. Caprow will also teach you poetry and you will read some in your textbook. There is a certain poem called "The Highwayman" in which you pick a stanza (paragraph), memorize it, and then recite it to the class.
For social studies Mr. Caprow has us do many things. One of the things he assigns us to do is to make posters. You will do two posters: one is the five-pillar poster and the other is the samurai poster, which he puts up on the wall and then the class votes which is the best.
Most of the time when we start a new unit you will have to do an outline. Then, sometimes for social studies Mr. Caprow will show us a movie and/or give us a slide lecture that goes with what we are learning for social studies that day. He will often write six questions up on the board or give us a study guide, which is a paper with questions. Then we will have to look for the answers by reading in our social studies textbook and later on we review it together in class. Mr. Caprow's social studies quizzes are not open book but they are open notes, which means all the work we did like the study guides and any notes you did will be allowed.
I told you about the things Mr. Caprow does for social studies and for language arts but here is some things he does for both subjects. He will give you a folder with an assignment sheet and on the sheet you write down all the assignments you are assigned and when you finish it you have to sign your name next to it then place your assignment in the folder. After the class does an assignment, which has to do with answering questions you will review it in class the next day. When you are reviewing it with the class, if you get called on and answer the question from the assignment correctly you a participation point. Those points usually make up most of your citizenship grade. Throughout the year he will teach you how to write essays, some on social studies topics, others based on books.
