May 13-17

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 Project Presenations take place in next week.  Students should be practicing their presenations nightly.

Ott Class Help Pass
clip and use for the week of 5/13

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 class with an overview of the week including the fact that book projects should begin coming in this week in preparation for next week's presentations.

  • Students will then complete the final i-Ready reading diagnostic of the year.

  • WIN time will be committed to independent reading work.

Homework:  Students should be reading at least 30 minutes per night and documenting their reading daily on their reading logs.  They should also complete a Dialectic Response based on a passage taken from  The Giver.

Tuesday

  • Students will begin class with the DOG daily Grammar Warm-up.  Students will then attempt to identify the part of speech of each word in the given sentence and note its code for Step 1 of the process.  Results will be shared and discussed.

  • Students will briefly discuss the events that took place in the opening chapter of The Giver and then read Chapters 4-5.  Students will reflect on elements of this society and whether they represent utopian ideals or lean more towards distopian characteristics.  Student observations for each chapter will be shared and discussed.

  • WIN time will be committed to independent reading work.

Homework:  Students should be reading at least 30 minutes per night and documenting their reading daily on their reading logs.  They should also complete a Dialectic Response based on a passage taken from  The Giver.

Wednesday

  • Students will begin class with an introduction to Step 2 of the DOG daily grammar activity.  Students will identify the sentence parts of the sentence for the week.  The results will be shared and discussed.

  • Students will briefly discuss the events that took place in the opening chapter of The Giver and then read Chapters 6-7.  Students will reflect on elements of this society and whether they represent utopian ideals or lean more towards distopian characteristics.  Student observations for each chapter will be shared and discussed.

  • Intervention time will be committed to to  Book Club time.

Homework:  Students should be reading at least 30 minutes per night and documenting their reading daily on their reading logs.  They should also complete a Dialectic Response based on a passage taken from  The Giver.

Thursday

  • Students will begin class with an introduction to Step 3 of the DOG daily grammar activity.  Students will identify the sentence parts of the sentence for the week.  The results will be shared and discussed.

  • Students will then continue their reading and responses to The Giver.

  • Intervention time will be committed to to  Book Club time.

Homework:  Students should be reading at least 30 minutes per night and documenting their reading daily on their reading logs.  They should also complete a Dialectic Response based on a passage taken from  The Giver.

Friday

  • Students will begin class with the Funny-bone inferential activity and then  complete steps 4 -5 of week's DOG, punctuating and diagramming the sentence for the week, exposing the relationships between the ideas communicated in the sentence.  The relationships between the various parts will be discussed.

  • Students will then continue their reading and responses to The Giver.

  • Finally, students will reflect on their week on The Week in Review.

  • Intervention time will be committed to to  Book Club time.

Homework:  Students should be reading at least 30 minutes per night and documenting their reading daily on their reading logs.  They should also complete a Dialectic Response based on a passage taken from  The Giver. Students who have finished everthing do not have additional homework tonight other than the preparations they may be making for the upcoming book project presenetations.