Monday - January 4
1. Students will complete Letters About Literature on Canvas during 90 minute block.
2. Teacher will give extra credit to students who have completed at least one page of the RED SCARF GIRL study guide over the holiday break.
3. Teacher hands out the vocabulary words for RED SCARF GIRL.
Tuesday - January 5
1.Teacher checks Page One of RED SCARF GIRL study guide.
2. Students receive INTERACTIVE READERS and complete pages 221 and 225 to 227 as a figurative language review with the teacher's help.
Wednesday - January 6
1. Students finish identifying and reviewing the figurative language terms in "The Highwayman" in the INTERACTIVE READER.
2. Teacher reminds and checks vocabulary words
3. Review Direct Objects
4. Students receive Figurative Language sheets for RED SCARF GIRL. Two entries are due next Wednesday.
Thursday - January 7
1. Students complete a figurative language identification project for "The Highwayman" in class.
2. Direct Object Diagramming
3. Reminder that study guide page 2 is due on Friday (tomorrow)
Friday - January 8
1. Students complete the figurative language project.
2. Teacher checks page 2 of the RED SCARF GIRL study guide.
Monday - January 11
1. Students will complete a quiz on "The HIghwayman".
2. Answers are discussed and terms are reviewed.
3. Students are reminded of page 3 due Tuesday on RED SCARF GIRL study guide.
4. Vocabulary for RED SCARF GIRL is reviewed.
5. Diagram direct objects.
Tuesday - January 12
1. Teacher checks page 3 of RED SCARF GIRL study guide,
2. Final test on "The Highwayman"
3. Students are reminded that two entries for the figurative language sheets for RED SCARF GIRL are due on Wednesday.
4. Diagram direct objects.
Wednesday - January 13
1. Teacher returns "The Highwayman" test.
2. Students complete 13 envelope group project work on China in class.
3. Figurative Language sheets checked for RED SCARF GIRL.
4. Diagram direct objects.
Thursday - January 14
1. Students finish the 13 envelopes group work on China in class for RED SCARF GIRL
2. Teacher reminds students that the study guide, page 4. is due tomorrow
3. Diagram direct objects
Friday - January 15
1. Teacher checks page 4 of RED SCARF GIRL study guide.
2. Direct object diagramming.
Tuesday - January 19
1. Teacher checks page 5 of RED SCARF GIRL study guide
2. Students read "The Charge of the Light Brigade" with class discussion and teacher explanation.
Wednesday - January 20 - 1/2 day work day for teachers
Thursday - January 21
1. Teacher reviews figurative language and reviews "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
2. Students take a twenty question test on "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
3. Teacher reviews direct objects and class diagrams ten sentences containing direct objects.
4. Teacher reviews vocabulary for RED SCARF GIRL.
Friday, January 22 through Tuesday, January 26 - Snow Days
Wednesday, January 27
1. Direct Object diagramming and review
2. Check study guide pages 5 and 6 for Friday, January 22 and Tuesday, January 26 - snow days
3. RED SCARF GIRL discussion of the Prologue, Surnames, Pronunciation Chart and Foreword by David Henry Hwang.
4. Identification and analysis of the extended metaphor in the Foreword and Bias.
Thursday, January 28
1. Direct Object diagramming in preparation for the test on Friday.
2. Reminder of the study guide check on Friday for Page 7, "Junior High School At Last" and "Locked Up"
3. Class discussion of pages 1 through 3 of the study guide.
4. Vocabulary quiz "Destroy the Four Olds!"
Friday, January 29
1. Test on Direct Objects
2. Study guide check for page 7.
3. Vocabulary quiz "Writing Da-zi-bao" and "The Red Successors".
4. Go over vocabulary words.
Monday, February 1
1. Review of Direct objects, adverbs, subjects, verbs and helping verbs.
2. Reminder that page 8 of study guide will be checked tomorrow - "An Educable Child", "Half-City Jiangs"
3. Book discussion with each class
4. vocabulary quiz
Tuesday, February 2
1. Direct Object Review
2. Study guide check for page 8
3. Book discussion with each class
4. Library visit for research paper on diseases
Wednesday, February 3
1. Direct Object diagramming
2. Study guide reminder for page 8/9 end of study guide check on RED SCARF GIRL
3. Book discussion - Cause and Effect practice sheet
Thursday, February 4
1. Direct object diagramming
2. Study guide reminder for page 8/9 end of study guide check due Friday.
3. Book discussion/class review of study guide in preparation for the test.
4, Bill of Rights/ U.S. Constitution comparison analysis
Friday, February 5
1. Final direct object test
2. Final study guide check
3. Book discussion/class review of study guide in preparation for the test on Monday
Monday, February 8
1. Final test on RED SCARF GIRL - due to snow days - moved to February 9
2. Vocabulary final test.
3. Disease Research Project work in class and library.
4. Begin prepositional phrases
Tuesday, February 9
1. Disease Research Project - Parenthetical Notation
2. Brochure production
3. Final test on RED SCARF GIRL
4. Prepositional phrases
Wednesday, February 10
1. Disease Research Project Brochure production
2. Teacher assistance with production and parenthetical notation (individually)
3. Prepositional phrases
Thursday, February 11
1. Disease Research Project Brochure production
2. Teacher assistance with production and parenthetical notation (individually)
3. Prepositional phrases
Friday, February 12
1. Final teacher assistance with production and parenthetical notation (individually)
Tuesday, February 16
1. Final teacher assistance with brochure production and parenthetical notation/works cited
Wednesday, February 17
1. Disease research project presentations, brochure and research paper due for Science/LA
2. Prepositional phrases
3. Life in the 1500s reading passage
Thursday, February 18
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Test on RED SCARF GIRL vocabulary page 4 - Students may use their vocabulary words for the test
3. Read Life in the 1500s - group work preparing a test
Friday, February 19
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Students will take the tests that they have made for "Life in the 1500s"
Monday, February 22 - Students were given their INTERACTIVE READERS and told to complete pages 3-15 for homework. This is due on Monday, February 29.
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Poetry unit - Author's purpose
3. Poetic phrases and terms
Tuesday, February 23
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Poetry unit
3. Poetic vocabulary
4. "A" Adjective Vocabulary
Wednesday, February 24
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Page 604 in the text - "The Jabberwocky"
Thursday, February 25
1. Prepositional phrases
2. Test on Humorous Poems Unit in Text
3. Vocabulary- Word Bank for "A" Adjective Vocabulary
Friday, February 26
1. Prepositional phrases diagramming first test
2. "A" Adjective test
Monday, February 29
1. INTERACTIVE READER is due - pages 3 - 15 "Seventh Grade"
2. Test on "Seventh Grade"
Monday, March 14
1. Students will take Spring MAP test
2. Students will receive schedules for next year to complete and get signed by a parent
3. Teacher checks "Rikki-tikki-tavi" assignment. "Zebra" is due next Monday.
Tuesday, March 15
1. Students will complete Spring MAP test
2. When finished, students will complete pages 202-209 in INTERACTIVE READER for a grade
Wednesday, March 16
1. Students complete preposition diagramming warm-ups for Tuesday and Wednesday
2. Students complete test on "Rikki-tikki-tavi" using their INTERACTIVE READERS. Students will highlight their text to answer each question and mark the question number.
3. Spring pictures are taken. CMS students use their chromebooks to link to the public library.
Thursday, March 17
1. Preposition Diagramming - Thursday
2. Notes on Deciphering Vocabulary
3. Finish "Rikki-tikki-tavi" test (students who were called out of class Wednesday)
4. Students receive MAP scores for the year
5. Complete missed question analysis for the Mock EOG
Friday, March 18
1. Preposition Test
2. Group work practice on deciphering vocabulary.
3. Return all tests
4. Complete missed question analysis for the Mock EOG
Monday, March 21
1. Preposition practice - Monday
2. Vocabulary notes - "ology"
3. "Zebra" is due in the INTERACTIVE READER.
4. Test on "Zebra"
5. Complete missed question analysis for the Mock EOG
Tuesday, March 22
1. Prepositional practice - Tuesday
2. Poetry terms review
3. "Prometheus" Textbook 646 or 258 INTERACTIVE READER
4. Notes on Deciphering Vocabulary
5. Assignment in INTERACTIVE READER pages 202-209 are due Wednesday (assignment given three weeks ago)
Wednesday, March 23
1. Prepositional practice - Wednesday
2. Complete 94-103 in the INTERACTIVE READER
3. Discussion on text
4. Check pages 202-209 in INTERACTIVE READER
Thursday, March 24
1. Preposition Test
2. Poetry terms review and practice
3.Check grades on Power School, return tests, make-up missing work
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Monday, April 4
1. Preposition diagramming
2. Review of Notes on Deciphering Vocabulary
3. Teacher checks "Scholarship Jacket" and "Retrieved Reformation" in INTERACTIVE READER
4.Students take test on "Scholarship Jacket"
Tuesday , April 5
1. Teacher checks pages 94-103 in INTERACTIVE READER (nonfiction)
2. Preposition Diagramming with introduction to Understood "You" and Predicate Adjectives
3. Vocabulary Lessons 2 and 3
4. Imagery practice in groups
Wednesday - April 6
1. Diagramming
2. Vocabulary
Potential test on "Prometheus" when time permits this week (Prometheus was read on the day of the pep rally and those participating students in the pep rally need some time to makeup the reading- before this test)
3. Return and go over tests
4. Finish Imagery practice and go over responses
5. Test on imagery (if there is time)
Thursday, April 7
1. Diagramming
2. Vocabulary
3. Poetry - "7:25 Trolley" - 2 day lesson plan with test on Friday
Friday - April 8
1. Diagramming Test
2. Vocabulary
3. Poetry 2 day lesson plan
Monday - April 11
1. Preposition diagramming with predicate adjectives and the "understood" you
2. Vocabulary lesson 4
3. Teacher checks "Retrieved Reformation"
4. Reading comprehension test on "Retrieved Reformation" (go over test after test is collected)
Tuesday - April 12
1. Preposition diagramming
2. Vocabulary
3. "Bicycles" poetry test
4. Analogies
Wednesday - April 13
1. Diagramming
2. Vocabulary lesson 5
3. Go over "Bicycles" test
4. More analogies
Thursday - April 14
1. Diagramming
2. Vocabulary
3. Practice literary devices and meanings
4. More analogies
Friday - April 15
1. Diagramming Test
2. Vocabulary
3. Literary Device Test
Monday - April 25
1. Preposition worksheet
2. Teacher checks "The War of the Wall"
3. Test on "The War of the Wall"
4. Teacher collects the tests and goes over the answers for reading comprehension
Tuesday - April 26
1. Preposition worksheet
2. Review previous tests and answer questions.
3. Discuss bias, opinion and inference with examples
Wednesday - April 27
1. Preposition worksheet
2. Fact and Opinion worksheets (block one)
3. Pages 310 to 329 in INTERACTIVE READER - discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt- "Letter to the DAR" and excerpt from the "Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt" with regard to bias, opinion and inference within a nonfiction text. In addition, Lance Armstrong "It's Not About The Bike" and "23 Days" was discussed using the text and historical perspective with regard to application of bias, opinion and inference.
Thursday - April 28
1. Preposition worksheet
2. Practice on opinion and fact using "Let's Clean Up Sherwood Forest" nonfiction reading article
3. Discussion and practice on inference
Friday - April 29
1. Preposition test
2. Poetry pretest - Page 252 "The New Colossus" and page 254 "The Plott Hound"
3. Poetry EOG practice - "Words" questions 1-5
4. "Homeless" is due on Monday with a test
5. INTERACTIVE READER pages due - "Eleanor Roosevelt" pages 292-309 (due 4/22), "Great White Shark" - pages 360-371 (due 4/12 in class, students had until 4/21 to complete it), "Letter to the DAR" and Lance Armstrong information - pages 310-329 (completed in class 4/26), "War of the Wall" pages 154-165 (due 4/25) ALL OF THESE ASSIGNMENTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND ARE DUE- Students who were on the field trips had extra time to complete them.
Monday - May 2
1. Preposition warmup
2. Check "Homeless" and complete test on "Homeless"
3. Return tests and go over tests
4. Go over "Words" and discuss questions
5. Complete "The Worker" and "Old Sneakers" poems. Five questions on each poem.
Tuesday - May 3
1. Preposition warmup
2. Students will take "Bicycles" poetry test
3. Discuss questions and answers
4. Complete "Growing" and "The Aquarium" poems
5. Go over questions and answers
Wednesday - May 4
1. Preposition warmup
2. Return tests and discuss questions
3. Group work - "The 7:25 Trolley"
4. Complete "Stop All The Clocks"
5. Go over questions and answers
Thursday- May 5
1. Preposition warmup
2. Test on "The 7:25 Trolley"
3. Complete "The Book" and "The Cornfield"
4. Go over questions and answers
Friday - May 6
1. Preposition Test
2. "The Turtle" poetry test
3. Collect tests and go over the answers