March 23-27

Assignments listed here represent the "Plan" for the week.  Plans of course are subject to change as needed, so this should not be considered the last word on what will take place in class or will be assigned for homework.  When plans do change however, the changes will be reflected here (hopefully by the evening of the day in which they are known to exist).

Week 28
Quarter 3 ends Friday.

Ott Class Help Pass
clip and use for the week of 3/23

Students who need extra help or assistance may see me Monday-Thursday after school.

Extra Help is available this week.

Students may use this pass to get help with assigned work .

Students without passes may not be permitted
to enter the building before school.

All 8th Grade ELA Classes  (7th Grade - scroll down)

Monday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then access Grammar Lesson SU5 L2 "Basic Verb Tenses."  Student teams will work their way through the lesson and then check their progress as a class.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by Wednesday.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Tuesday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will read, discuss and use metacognitive reading strategies to respond to Chapter 11 of The Devil's Arithmetic.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by Wednesday.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Wednesday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will take a brief quiz on Chapter 11.

  • Students will begin two day introduction to the concept of Irony, which they will apply to their own lives and to our reading of The Devil's Arithmetic.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by today.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Thursday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then complete the Irony lesson we began yesterday writing about an ironic experience they have lives themselves and then collaborate with their team to identify several ironic situations that have occured in The Devil's Arithmetic.

  • Students will continue the use of Metacognitive Reading strategies as we begin the reading and response to Chapter 12 of The Devil's Arithmetic.

Homework: Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Friday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then complete the reading and use of Metacognitive Reading Strategies to examine Chapter 12 of The Devil's Arithmetic.

Homework: Have a great Spring Break.
All 7th Grade ELA Classes

Monday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then be given time to work on the last Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt for the 3rd Quarter or to continue to work on their preparation for tomorrow's debate.

  • If time permits, students who have not already presented their book projects and are now ready, will present.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by Wednesday.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Tuesday

  • Students will  begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • The process for the team debate on Phineas Gage is clarified and then we proceed with the debate.  Teams with opposite perspectives will debate whether Gage was the same man after his accident or if he was a different man after his accident.  Winners will be determined and awarded.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by Wednesday.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Wednesday - Unit Assessment

  • The unit assessment will be explained and students will be given the entire class to complete it.

  • Students who finish with time to spare may work on their word work assignment, IXL, or simply read their books.

Homework: Students need to turn in any late work by today.  Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Thursday

  • Students will begin the class with 10 minutes of idependent reading.

  • Students will be introduced and given time to collaboratively work on the 1st half of the vocabulary for our reading of The Call of the Wild by Jack London.  Students will use the given context from the novel to guess at the possible definition of each word and to determine the part of speech.  Studens will then use Vocabulary.com to see if they figured out the meaning with that given context.

Homework: Students seeking extra credit may continue to take advantage of IXL and the Final Extra Credit Word Work assignemnt due by Friday. 

Friday

  • Students will begin the class with 10 minutes of idependent reading.

  • Students will continue to collaboratively work on the 1st half of the vocabulary for our reading of The Call of the Wild by Jack London.  Students will use the given context from the novel to guess at the possible definition of each word and to determine the part of speech.  Studens will then use Vocabulary.com to see if they figured out the meaning with that given context.

Homework: Have a great Spring Break.