January 8 - 12

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).

Poetry Mini-Projects begin on Monday.  The individual parts of the project should be completed by Friday.  We will put the project together, edit and revise next week.

Ott Class Help Pass
clip and use for the week of 1/8

Students who need extra assistance or need to discuss their projects may contact me before 7:30 Tuesday - Friday in the morning before school. If I know students are coming in for help, I will look for them by the walker's entrance to the upper school.

Extra Help is available this week.

Students may use this pass to get help with assigned work
or to get help on their Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.

Students without passes may not be permitted
to enter the building before school.

All 7th Grade ELA Classes

Monday

  • Students will begin class with introduction to the Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.  We will discuss the relationship between popular music and poetry as well as the parts of the project and this week's use of class time to complete it.

  • We will examine Step 1 of the Model Project before giving students time to work on their own.

  • Students will then copy the song lyrics that they selected last week from their Week 16 notebook into their Week 17 notebook, format them to fit the slide and begin their paraphrasing of each stanza of their chosen song lyric.

  • WIN Time - Students will have the opportunity to work on or get help with their projects during WIN time if they need to do so.

Homework: Students should complete 30 minutes of independent reading which they document every night this week.  They should also complete the step of the poetry project we worked on today if they did not complete that during class.

Tuesday

  • Students will begin class with a review the Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.  We will quickly review the relationship between popular music and poetry as well as the parts of the project and this week's use of class time to complete it.

  • We will examine Step 2 & 3 of the Model Project before giving students time to work on their own.

  • Students will then use their foldable to begin identifying and marking up the poetic devices they can find in their own lyric.

  • WIN Time - Students will have the opportunity to work on or get help with their projects during WIN time if they need to do so.

Homework: Students should complete 30 minutes of independent reading which they document every night this week.  They should also complete the step of the poetry project we worked on today if they did not complete that during class.

Wednesday

  • Students will begin class with examination of the progress they should be making on their Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.

  • We will then examine Step 4 of the Model Project before giving students time to work on their own.

  • Students will then use their foldable to begin the analysis of their song lyric focusing on elements they identified in yesterday's class.

  • WIN Time - Students will have the opportunity to work on or get help with their projects during WIN time if they need to do so.

Homework: Students should complete 30 minutes of independent reading which they document every night this week.  They should also complete the step of the poetry project we worked on today if they did not complete that during class.

Thursday

  • Students will begin class with examination of the progress they should be making on their Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.

  • We will then examine Step 6 of the Model Project before giving students time to continue to work on their Analysis.

  • Students will push to complete the analysis pyramid for their chosen lyric and may then move on to finding an appropriate image and documenting its source.

  • WIN Time - Students will have the opportunity to work on or get help with their projects during WIN time if they need to do so.

Homework: Students should complete 30 minutes of independent reading which they document every night this week.  They should also complete the step of the poetry project we worked on today if they did not complete that during class.

Friday

  • Students will begin class with examination of the progress they should be making on their Poetry Analysis Mini-Project.

  • We will then review Step 6 of the Model Project before giving students time to work on their own.

  • Students will continue their work to finish up the parts of the project through Step 6.

  • They will then complete their Week in Review.

  • WIN Time - Students will have the opportunity to work on or get help with their projects during WIN time if they need to do so.

Homework: Students should complete 30 minutes of independent reading which they document every night this week.  They should also complete the step of the poetry project we worked on today if they did not complete that during class.