October 24-28 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).
 
Report Cards arrive on Monday 10/24 Parent Conferences on
Thursday 10/27
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Ott Class Help Pass clip and use for the week of
10/24 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 what
is the Monday Grammar Warm-Up focusing on
the difference between Two, Too, and To. This week,
will focus on the use and proof of "Too" 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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Students will then collaboratively
read and respond to an introduction to the Graphic Novel genre.
Once they have answered the discussion questions, they will
construct their own response to a question concerning if Graphic
Novels are a legitimate form of literature or no more than comic
books. Their response will be in the form of a tweet with no
more than 140 characters. Students will review the ideas
submitted by their classmates and take a poll, which will begin
discussion tomorrow.
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The 2nd half of the Block will be
committed to WIN time.
Homework: Students
should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and
document their reading on their reading log. They also need to
complete their 2nd
Dialectical Response by the end of the week.
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Tuesday
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Students will begin class with a
discussion about the background article they responded to yesterday.
We will look at the results of the poll along with some of the
responses that were submitted.
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Students will then begin their first
reading of Nimona focusing focusing their annotations on new
vocabulary, character, and questions that are raised by the text.
Once they have completed their reading, students will discuss the
text with their new team and jot down answers to a series of
discussion questions. Results of this discussion will be
discussed further in the full class setting.
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The 2nd half of the Block will be
committed to WIN time.
Homework: Students
should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and
document their reading on their reading log. They also need to
complete their 2nd
Dialectical Response by the end of the week.
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Wednesday
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Students will begin class with a mini
lesson in StudySync on Textual Evidence. We will go through
the lesson as a class exploring vocabulary relating to textual
evidence and drawing conclusions from several examples of textual
evidence.
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Students will then make a substantive
inference about each of the characters in Nimona and use
textual evidence to explain how they arrived at that observation.
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The 2nd half of the Block will be
committed to WIN time.
Homework: Students
should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and
document their reading on their reading log. They also need to
complete their 2nd
Dialectical Response by the end of the week.
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Thursday
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The Thursday Poetry Warm-Up will
involve a reading and analysis of "If" by Rudyard Kipling, the
author of "Rikki-tikki-tavi." Students will note passages from the
poem that reflect what they see as useful advice for life.
Students will then develop their thoughts on one or more noted
pieces of advice that speak to them. Volunteers will be
permitted time to share their thoughts on that advice (Since we
didn't read the poem last week).
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Students will then complete a close
read of Nimona assuming the role of one of the main
characters with the purpose of finding evidence they need to
convince the other main character to fight according to their style.
Students will need several convincing reasons.
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Students will then move into their
teams to determine the rules they will observe for their debate, and
discuss their reasons why the other should adopt their strategy.
Following this discussion students will reflect on the experience
and evaluate their performance in the debate.
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The 2nd half of the Block will be
committed to WIN time.
Homework: Students
should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and
document their reading on their reading log. They also need to
complete their 2nd
Dialectical Response by the end of the week.
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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 then begin the debate
they prepared for yesterday.
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Following the debate, we will
experience a minilesson on the use of Mood & Tone.
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The 2nd half of the Block will be
committed to WIN time.
Homework: Students
should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and
document their reading on their reading log. They also need to
complete their 2nd
Dialectical Response by the end of the week.
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