December  12 - 16

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).

Book Projects and Presentations are due in Next Week,  Wednesday December 21st.  See Calendar on Monday for details on where you should be with the project by now.

Ott Class Help Pass
clip and use for the week of 12/12

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.

All 7th Grade ELA Classes

Monday

  • Students will begin the day with viewing a video giving them some background on "The Highwayman."

  • Students will then complete a first reading of the poem, annotating significant passages.

  • Students will then join their collaborative team where they will complete a Text Talk exploring some of the basic facts of the poem.  Results will be shared and discussed with the class, before students begin individual responses to three "Think" questions on their Interactive notebook page.  Students who do not finish their written responses should do so for homework.

  • WIN Time

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. There is no Word Work this week, but students have a Dialectical Response to complete on a poem they have read during Unit 2.  Students should also be working steadily to complete their book projects and presentations, which are due next week.

Tuesday

  • Students will begin class with a brief discussion of yesterday's responses to the Think Questions before completing a Close read of the text.

  • Students will collaboratively consider each individual stanza as they break it down for specific elements.  Students may use the audio version to complete the reading of each stanza, but they will be pausing it to answer the related questions for each stanza.  The results will be shared and discussed.

  • WIN Time

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. There is no Word Work this week, but students have a Dialectical Response to complete on a poem they have read during Unit 2.  Students should also be working steadily to complete their book projects and presentations, which are due next week.

Wednesday

  • Students will begin class with a warm-up task of organizing a plot diagram for the poem we've spent the last two days examining.

  • We will then have a brief discussion on the differences between print and visual media.

  • Students will then view a dramatatized reading of "The Highwayman" before attempting to complete a Venn Diagram comparing the two versions of the poem and attempting to answer a question that asks student to use the information in their Venn to Compare the two versions.  Results will be shared and discussed.

  • WIN Time

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. There is no Word Work this week, but students have a Dialectical Response to complete on a poem they have read during Unit 2.  Students should also be working steadily to complete their book projects and presentations, which are due next week.

Thursday

  • Students will begin class with a breif explanation for the analysis task they are going to undertake with their team.  Student teams will be reading and analyzing a poem.  They will complete three of the five parts of the Analysis Pyramid and marking up the poem to reflect their analysis.

  • Student teams will begin their analysis and copy their notes to the shared document that will be accessible to the entire class and sharing their findings with the class.

  • Students will then use the class notes to complete the analysis of the poem.

  • WIN Time

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. There is no Word Work this week, but students have a Dialectical Response to complete on a poem they have read during Unit 2.  Students should also be working steadily to complete their book projects and presentations, which are due next week.

Friday

  • 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.

  • Students team will examine the widely read "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.  Students will answer several analytical questions and then examine the use of the poem by Ford Motor company in an attempt to consider why a car manufacturer would use this poem to sell cars.

  • They will then use remaining time to finish up their independent reading work for the week and make some progress on the book project that is quickly coming due.

  • Students will finish the day completing their independent reading and writing work and reflecting on the Week in Review.

  • WIN Time

Homework: Students should read their independent reading novel for 30 minutes tonight and document their reading on their reading log. There is no Word Work this week, but students have a Dialectical Response to complete on a poem they have read during Unit 2.  Students should also be working steadily to complete their book projects and presentations, which are due next week.