Agenda

Week 11/30

Monday 11/30

Lesson 9 Main Idea and Detail

Essay on Thanksgiving due friday

Tuesday 12/01

Application Main Idea and detail

Wednesday 12/02

Lesson 10 Text Structures

Thursday 12/03

Review FCAT Exam 1

Friday 12/04

Review FCAT Exam 1

Thanksgiving essay due

Reading log and FCAT story due on Monday.

Week 11/23

Monday 11/23

Exam

Tuesday 11/24

Exam

Wed, Thurs, and Fri

Thanksgiving Break

Week 11/16

Monday:

page 193 Skill: Literary analysis

conflict with nature #1-3

Tuesday:

pg 193 Comparing literary works #4-6

Wednesday:

Reading strategy skill

Making predictions pg 193 #7-8

Thursday:

Skill: pg 194 Vocabulary development

worksheet 61 and 62

Friday:

Assessment

Week 11/9

Monday:

Skill Grammar, Coordinating Conjunctions

worksheet pg 98

Tuesday:

Assessment (open book, open notes)

Wednesday:

Read "A Boy and a Man" pg 180

Thursday:

Review and assess pg 189 #1-6

Friday:

Read "Into Thin Air" pg 190

Review and assess pg 192 #1-6

Students are to read 30 minutes a night, log the reading in their sprial notebooks, and journal one full page 5 out of 7 nights. Reading logs and journals are due on Mondays.

Students are to complete one FCAT story a week. They are to turn in the printed report on Mondays.

The essay and advanced projects are due on November 13, 2009.

Students are to be reading and working on their novel studies for the quarter. When they have finished the novel study, then they can read a book of their choice.

Week of 11/2

Monday: Read "The Rider" and complete the review and assess.

Tuesday: Page 307 #1-2 Skill: Third Person Point of View

Wednesday:Page 307 #4-7 Comparing literary works

Thursday: pg 307 #8 skill: drawing inferences

Friday: pg 308 Vocabulary Development, worksheets 96 and 97

Students are to complete one FCAT story a week, print it out and turn it in.

Students are to read 30 minutes a night a book of their choice, log the time, and journal one full page 5 out of 7 days. Advanced classes are to complete 2 of the 5 projects given by November 13.

All classes are to complete a compare and contrast essay by November 13. This has to be approved in stages. All essays must be typed.

Students have glued the project sheets and requirement sheets in their spiral notebooks.

Monday 10/26:

Read"Amigo"

Tuesday 10/27:

page 298 #1-5

Wednesday 10/28

pg 299 #1-3

Thursday 10/29

page 305 #1-5

Friday 10/30 : No school

Week 10/26-11/13

7^th grade LA

 

10/26/2009 to 11/13/2009

Read 30 minutes a night a book of your choice and journal one full page.

Journals and reading logs are to be turned in on Mondays.

Complete 1 FCAT story a week. Print the report and turn it in.

 

 

Write a comparison and contrast essay analyzing similarities and differences between two of the characters in the selections presented here. For example you might compare Felix to Justin Lebo. Use a computer to create a chart, such as a Venn Diagram, to illustrate your essay.

Essay is due on November 13, 2009. The essay must be 5 paragraphs and typed.

Essays that are not typed will not be accepted.

I will not take emails, or flash drives.

The essay will count as a test grade.

 

Mrs. Clark

LA 7^th grade

Due date: November 13, 2009

Period 2 advance must choose 1 activity.

Period 3, 7 and 8 can choose 1 activity for extra credit.

 

1. Have students create a pictorial map of New York City showing the places mentioned in the story, with drawings that show what occurs in each location. Students include a movie theatre in the South Bronx, TompkinsSquarePark, East River Drive (labeled FDR Drive on some maps), the boys’ apartment building, and the various gyms.

 

2. Locate examples in the fight scene of vivid figurative language such as “dynamite stored in his fist”; “glowing glove burns showing angry red against the whiteness of his midribs”; “Beads of water exploded from Antonio’s long hair.” Discuss how colorful and dramatic descriptions help readers imagine the scene. Then, select a descriptive phrase or sentence and draw or paint a literal interpretation of it- that is, exactly what it says.

 

3. Research Henry Ford’s assembly line process. You can locate information in encyclopedias, in library books about Henry Ford or automobiles, in some history textbooks, or on the Internet. Make notes about the main steps in the assembly-line process, and then discuss ways to illustrate these steps in a flowchart. You can use long strips of butcher paper and colored markers to create flowcharts showing the steps. You should use directional arrows to show the order in which the steps progress Students may illustrate the steps in the process themselves or use representative pictures from magazines or newspapers.

 

 4. Students research aspects of Puerto Rican culture and history, including the postwar immigration to the main land United States, “El Barrio” in New York City, Puerto Rican statehood and independence movements, or the Puerto Rican boxing champions who may have inspired the story characters.

 

5. How would “Amigo Brothers” change if it were written from the first person point of view? Who would the narrator be? How would this affect the readers’ feelings toward the characters? Choose a passage from the selection and rewrite it from the first person point of view.

 

 

 

 

Monday: 10/19

Daily Language Practice

Skill Reading Strategy: Paraphrasing Paraphrase each stanza; Page 731 #9-11

Work on Individual Projects

Tuesday: 10/20

Daily Language Practice

Skill: Literary Analysis: Rhythm and Rhyme

Individual Projects

Wednesday: 10/21

Daily Language Practice

Skill: Comparing Literary Works; Page 731 #4-8

Individual Projects

Thursday: 10/22

Daily Language Practice

Skill: Vocabulary Development; Page 732 Word Analysis: Latin Root -found-; Fluency: Synonyms, Spelling Strategy

Friday: 10/23

Asssessment

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Week 10/12

Monday: Literary analysis pg 221

Tuesday: review worksheets

Wednesday: Test: "The Californian's Tale" open notes, not open book

Thursday: Read "Martin Luther King" and "Annabel Lee"

Friday: Review and discuss

All students need to complete one FCAT story a week.

Finish quarter project.

Advanced project: due 10/14

Extra credit for the other classes: due 10/14

Reading logs are due weekly.

Week 10/5

Wednesday:

Read "The Californian's Tale" by Mark Twain

Answer questions 1-6 page 219

Cheat sheet given out for next test.

Next test will be open notes, but not open book.

"The Californian's Tale" advanced project given out. Due on 10/12

Weekly reading log given out. Read 30 minutes a night, no journaling. log is due on Monday.

"Call of the Wild" Final Project given out and due November 2, 2009.

Thursday:

Turn in all work when done.

Page 219 #1-6

page 220 #1-5

worksheets:

page 71: build vocabulary

page 72: build spelling

page 73: build grammar: adverbs

page 74: reading strategy: summarizing

page 75: literary analysis: local color

Students will work on this and any other projects today and tomorrrow.

What they do not finish is homework, and is due on Monday.

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Week 09/28

Advanced class: Choose 1, due 10/09/09

1. Fables include animal characters that behave as humans. Fables often contain a moral, or lesson, which is portrayed by the characters working through their problems. Read additional fables, such as those by Aesop or Jean de la Fontaine, and identify the ways in which the morals are presented. Compare and contrast “Fable” and its moral with two fables by other authors.

 

2. Read additional works by Eve Merriam. Compare two poems with “Thumbprint”. Write an essay comparing the themes and the poet’s means of presenting these themes.

Daily: Read 30 minutes and journal 1 full page

Novel studies:

"Call of the Wild" Read the remainder of the book.

Test Monday

9/28 Monday:

Lesson 4 Text Features

FCAT   Coach

Apply to novel study

9/29 Tuesday:

Lesson 5 graphic organizers

FCAT   Coach

Apply to novel study

9/30 Wednesday

Lesson 6 Summarizing and Paraphrasing

FCAT   Coach

Apply to novel study

10/1 Thursday:

Read "Fable" pg 130

Paraphrasing figurative language pg 129

Selection support pg 49

10/2 Friday:

Literary Analysis

Rhyme p. 129

Selection support pg 50

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Week 9/21/09

Spelling Words:

1. ancient

2. anecdote

3. anniversary

4. anonymous

5. answer

6. anxiety

7. apologize

8. appall

9. appearance

10. appreciate

Monday 9/21

Test: "The Third Level"

Tuesday 9/22

Read "Was Tarzan the Three Bandage Man"

Read "Oranges"

Wednesday 9/23

Review and Assess

Thursday 9/24

Worksheets 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35

Friday 9/25

Spelling test

Test: "Was Tarzan the Three Bandage Man"

"Oranges"

Daily: read novel and journal 1 full page

HW due Monday, 9/28

Write an opinion essay: Are sports stars good role models? Write an opinion essay in which you explain and

support your opinion.

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Week 9/14/09

Spelling words:

Write spelling words 3 times each daily.

1. advertisement

2. aerial

3. aggravate

4. agreeable

5. aisle

6. all right

7. aluminum

8. amateur

9. analysis

10. analyze

Monday: 9/14

Presentations

Tuesday: 9/15

Denotation, Connotation, and Context Clues

Read and discuss "The Third Level"

Wednesday: 9/16

Analyze "The Third Level"

Literary Analysis: Time in a Setting

Reading Strategy: Clarifying Word Meanings with Context Clues

Selection Support: 21, 22, and 23

Thursday: 9/17

Read and discuss "Was Tarzan a Three- Bandage Man"

Friday: 9/18

Spelling test

Discuss "Call of the Wild"

Daily: read 30 minutes of "Call of the Wild" and journal 1 page.

Read Chapters 1-4 by 9/21

Weekly: Description of a place

Jack Finney uses a vivid descriptive language to recreate the atmosphere, or mood, of a time long gone. Write a description of a place you could use to create an atmosphere for a modern story. Begin with vivid detail. Then, build a complete picture of the scene by using words and phrases, such as above, behind, and in front of, that tell where things are located in space.

Work on quarter project due 10/19