October 3 - 7 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).
 
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10/03 Students who need extra assistance or
need to discuss their projects may clip this pass and use it to see me
Tuesday - Thursday in the morning before school.
Extra Help is available this week. Students may use this pass to get help with assigned work or to discuss Book Projects and Presentations. Students without passes may not be permitted to enter the building before school. |
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All
7th Grade ELA Classes |
Monday
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Students will begin the day with the Monday Grammar Warm-Up focusing on
the difference between Two, Too, and To. This week,
will focus on the use and proof of "Two" Students will be
introduced to the proof and attempt to use and prove their use of
the word in a brief writing response. Volunteers will share
sentences from their writing. Students will then document
their understanding in their Writer's and Reader's Notebooks.
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Studens will then complete a directed
reading activity with the very short story, "Cemetery Path" by
Leonard Q. Ross. Students will complete a "Think Link" chart
as we read and then examine the elements of the plot of this story
by completing a plot diagram.
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Students who finish their day working
on their independent reading work for the week or with the
completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.
Homework: Students
should read their independent
reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their
reading log. Four new Word Work words are also due by the end of the
week.
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Tuesday
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Students will take a brief overview
of the Quiz Correction process, which they may use to recover
partial credit from a quiz grade that they want to improve.
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Students will then review yesterday's
reading before collaboratively planning and writing a response to
"Cemetery Path." Students will collect evidence from the story
to support an observation about the author's characterization of one
of the main characters from the story. We will review the ABCs
of constructed responses and collaboratively respond to the given
prompt. Confident students may go their own way with this
prompt or may note the model response as we slowly go through the
drafting of our response.
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Students who finish their day working
on their independent reading work for the week or with the
completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.
Homework: Students
should read their independent
reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their
reading log. Quiz Corrections for the Rikki-Tiki Quiz and the
"There" Quiz are due by
Friday.
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Wednesday
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Students will begin class with a
mini-lesson on collaborative conversations.
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They will then be introduced to the
question they will answer for their constructed response and discuss
the possible approaches with fellow classmates.
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Students will then begin collecting
evidence to support their approach to the prompt.
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Students who finish their day working
on their independent reading work for the week or with the
completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.
Homework: Students
should read their independent
reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their
reading log. Quiz Corrections for the Rikki-Tiki Quiz are due by
Friday.
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Thursday
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The Thursday Poetry Warm-Up will
involve a reading and analysis of "Maybe Dat Youwr Problem Too" by
Jim Hall. Students will then complete a written response to
the poem attempting to figure out the author's message.
Results will be shared and discussed.
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Students will then review our work
from Tuesday's class with the response to "Cemetery Path" before
moving on to the written response they will complete independently
on "Rikki-tikki-tavi. We will examine the question again and the
planning process before students are given the time to begin
planning for themselves.
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Students who collect the necessary
evidence to begin their responses may begin to draft their work.
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Students who finish their day working
on their independent reading work for the week or with the
completion of an i-Ready reading lesson.
Homework: Students
should read their independent
reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their
reading log. Quiz Corrections for the Rikki-Tiki Quiz are due by
Friday.
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Friday
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Students will begin class the Friday Funny Bone
activity. This is an inferential activity where students
examine a Gary Larson cartoon, draw conclusions about it, and
construct a possible caption that attempts to not only make sense
out of the image, but also make it funny.
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Students will review the the peer
review process before finishing their work on their responses for
the "Rikki-tikki-tavi" question.
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Students who finish their papers and
five peer reviews use remaining time to complete their Week
in Review and any other unfinished business for the week.
Homework: Students
who have completed their
independent reading work for the week have no additional homework.
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