Oct. 31 - Nov. 4 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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Ott Class Help Pass clip and use for the week of
10/31 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 "To" 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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Then, 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. 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 begin the day with review their notes on Mood, Tone, and Suspense and
then complete a 1st reading of "The Babysitter." Students will
mark up the text identifying words and phrases that reflect the mood
of the story and note that mood in the margin. Students will
then complete the annotation of the story with their cooperative
team and complete a summary satement, a thematic statment, and a
series of questions that reflect the impacto of the writer's control
of the mood of the story to build suspense. Results will be shared
and discussed.
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Finally, students will
collaboratively construct the plot diagram
illustrating significant plot developments.
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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. Four new Word Work
words are also due by the end of the week.
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Wednesday
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Students will begin the day with a
review of their SWBS and Thematic statments and go over their
progress on the Plot Diagram.
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Students will then review the ABCs of
Constructed Response and find the supporting textual evidence to
support the observations made in the given student response.
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Results will be shared and discussed.
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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. Four new Word Work
words are also due by the end of the week.
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Thursday
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Students will begin class with the
Thursday Poetry Warm-Up. Students will read and annotate "Song
of the Witches" by William Shakespeare. Students will then
collaborate to perform a dramatic reading of this poem emphasizing
the author's extensive use of the sound devices in this piece.
Students will vote for the best presentations of the poem.
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Students will then be introduced to
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling. This
exerpt from the original Twilight Zone episode will be experienced
orally as students will read along to the oral reading of the screen
play and then discuss their observations and note their findings in
their cooperative teams. Results will be discussed as we then
look at what students noticed about this narrative format.
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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. Four new Word Work
words are also due 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 experience a breif discussion from yesterday's experience with the
screen-play before viewing original Twilight Zone episode in an
attempt to extract the main theme of the drama. We will focus
on the last scene and its impact on communicating that theme.
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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. Four new Word Work
words are also due by the end of the week.
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