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.
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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. |
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All
7th Grade ELA Classes |
Monday
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Students will begin the day with
viewing a video giving them some background on "The Highwayman."
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Students will then complete a first
reading of the poem, annotating significant passages.
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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.
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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.
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Tuesday
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Students will begin class with a
brief discussion of yesterday's responses to the Think Questions
before completing a Close read of the text.
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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.
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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.
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Wednesday
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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.
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We will then have a brief discussion
on the differences between print and visual media.
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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.
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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.
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Thursday
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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.
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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.
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Students will then use the class
notes to complete the analysis of the poem.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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Students will finish the day
completing their independent reading and writing work and reflecting
on the Week in Review.
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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.
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