Sept. 30 - Oct. 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).

Week 6

Ott Class Help Pass
clip and use for the week of 9/23

Students who need extra help or assistance may see me Monday - Friday after school.

Extra Help is available this week.

Students may use this pass to get help with assigned work .

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

All 8th Grade ELA Classes  (7th Grade - scroll down)

Monday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then invest the rest of the period in Grammar Lesson 3 focusing on the Predicate of the  sentence.  Students will work through all activities in the lesson which we will review before ending the class for the day.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading.  They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Tuesday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with independent reading.

  • Students will then begin Amplify Lesson Perspectives and Narrative SU 3 L2 "Two Conversations" Focusing on Roald Dahl's memoir Going Solo and examinig the writer's use of direct and indirect characterization of two characters he meets in this chapter.  We will work through Activity 4.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Wednesday

  • Students will begin class with a quick review of class expectations followed by 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then complete Amplify Lesson Perspectives and Narrative SU 3 L2 "Two Conversations" Focusing on Roald Dahl's memoir Going Solo and examinig the writer's use of direct and indirect characterization of two characters he meets in this chapter.  We will work through Activity 7.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Thursday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with independent reading.

  • Students will then begin Amplify Lesson Perspectives and Narrative SU 3 L3 "Speeding up and slowing down" Focusing on Roald Dahl's memoir Going Solo and examining the author's use of vivid verbs and vivid detail to control the pace of the narrative. We will work through Activity 4.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Friday

  • Students will begin class with a quick review of class expectations followed by 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then begin Amplify Lesson Perspectives and Narrative SU 3 L3 "Speeding up and slowing down" Focusing on Roald Dahl's memoir Going Solo and examining the author's use of vivid verbs and vivid detail to control the pace of the narrative. We will work through Activity 8.

Homework: Students who have completed their reading documentation and word work for the week have no homework over the weekend.
All 7th Grade ELA Classes

Monday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will then complete Step 1 of DOG #4 before moving into Grammar Lesson #3

  • Students will then invest the rest of the period in Grammar Lesson 3 focusing on the Predicate of the  sentence.  Students will work through all activities in the lesson which we will review before ending the class for the day.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading.  They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Tuesday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will them complete Step 2 of DOG #4 before moving in to the vocabulary for the next Amplify lesson.

  • Students will complete Amplify Lesson 7A Red Scarf Girl SU3 L2 "Ji-Li's Troubles Begin"   We will discuss our dramatic reading of the text from Friday.  We will focus on the perspective of the narrator and zoom in on ther narrator's emotions at significant points in the scene.  Activities will include a comparison between Ji-Li's perspective and that of her parents. We will work through the exit ticket in Activity 9.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Wednesday

  • Students will review routines and expectations for class before they begin the class with 10 minutes of independent reading.

  • Students will them complete Step 3 of DOG #4 before moving in to the current Amplify lesson.

  • Students will begin Amplify Lesson 7A Red Scarf Girl SU3 L3 "Destroy the Four Olds"   Students will complete a dramatic reading of the text and examine the fluctuation of the narrator's emotions. We will work through Activity 4.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Thursday

  • Students will begin class with a brief review of classroom expectations and go directly into their independent reading.

  • Class will continue as students comlete Step 4 of DOG #4.

  • Students will complete Amplify Lesson 7A Red Scarf Girl SU3 L3 "Destroy the Four Olds"   Students will analyze a propaganda poster from the period and explore it's relationship to the text. We will work through Activity 8.

Homework: Students should complete their 1/2 hour of independent reading tonight and use their reading log to document their reading. They also have 2 Word Work words due by Friday.

Friday

  • Students will begin class with a brief review of classroom expectations and go directly into their independent reading.

  • Class will continue as students comlete Step 5 of DOG #4.

  • Students will then begin Amplify Lesson 7A Red Scarf Girl SU3 L4 "The Pull of Compassion"   Students will break the scene into four sections and explore the narrator's feelings at each point in the scene as she and her classmates begin experiences in the Cultural Revolution.  We will likely work through activity 4.

Homework: Students who have completed their independent reading minutes, documentation and Word Work do not have homework over the weekend.