Wednesday, November 22, 2017

7th Grade Writing


Third Six Weeks

Week 2
November 27-December 1, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."
Monday, November 17

* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson
GRAMMAR: Students come up with the identification of sentence mistakes through sentence problems. They fix the sentence mistakes, label the mistakes, and define the mistakes.
COMPOSITION: 
* Students rewrite their rough drafts
* Students with teacher brainstorm the topic of this prompt: Write an essay explaining the importance of honesty in friendship.
* Students are guided to make an outline.


Tuesday, November 28
* Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR
* Sentence combining through sentence problems
COMPOSITION
* Give the different patterns of leads with examples.
* Give sample expository essays  and articles with different leads.
* Students identify and emulate the leads after many discussions.
* Students start writing rough draft of essay and to finish the introduction.
Wednesday, November 29
* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
GRAMMAR
* Sentence combining using different types of sentences through sentence mistakes to practice creating variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION
* Students write their  body paragraphs with the use of EXPLANATION, EXAMPLE, LINK as well as strategies using HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT, LITERATURE, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (HELP).
* Students write their conclusions using CONCRETE, ABSTRACT (CA) as well as INSIGHT, REPHRASE, ADVICE (IRA)

Thursday, November 30
GRAMMAR
* Students practice using variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION
* Students turn-in their essay.

Friday, December 1
* Students turn-in revised essay.



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Saturday, November 11, 2017

7th Grade Writing


Third Six Weeks

Week 1
November 13-17, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."
Monday, November 13

* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson
GRAMMAR: Students come up with the identification of sentence mistakes through sentence problems. They fix the sentence mistakes, label the mistakes, and define the mistakes.
COMPOSITION: 
* Students with teacher brainstorm the topic of this prompt: Write an essay explaining the importance of honesty in friendship.
* Students are guided to make an outline.
* EMERGENCY EVACUATION TRAINING 

Tuesday, November 14
* Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR
* Sentence combining through sentence problems
COMPOSITION
* Give the different patterns of leads with examples.
* Give sample expository essays  and articles with different leads.
* Students identify and emulate the leads after many discussions.
* Students start writing rough draft of essay and to finish the introduction.
Wednesday, November 15
* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
GRAMMAR
* Sentence combining using different types of sentences through sentence mistakes to practice creating variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION
* Students write their  body paragraphs with the use of EXPLANATION, EXAMPLE, LINK as well as strategies using HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT, LITERATURE, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (HELP).
* Students write their conclusions using CONCRETE, ABSTRACT (CA) as well as INSIGHT, REPHRASE, ADVICE (IRA)Thursday, November 16
GRAMMAR
* Students practice using variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION
* Students turn-in their essay.

Friday, November 17
GRAMMAR
* MOVIE: WONDER
COMPOSITION
* MOVIE: WONDER







    Saturday, November 4, 2017

    7th Grade Writing

    Second Six Weeks

    Week 5
    November 6-10, 2017
    "There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."
    Monday, November 6

    * Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson
    GRAMMAR: Students come up with the identification of sentence mistakes through sentence problems. They fix the sentence mistakes, label the mistakes, and define the mistakes.
    COMPOSITION: 
    * Show students the expository house with strategies.

    Tuesday, November 7
    * Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

    GRAMMAR
    * Sentence combining through sentence problems
    COMPOSITION
    * Give the different patterns of leads with examples.
    * Give sample expository essays  and articles with different leads.
    * Students identify and emulate the leads after many discussions.
    Wednesday, November 8
    * Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
    GRAMMAR
    * Sentence combining using different types of sentences through sentence mistakes to practice creating variety of sentence structures.
    * Test review
    COMPOSITION
    * Have students identify controlling idea in past test passages as well as supporting details.

    Thursday, November 9
    GRAMMAR
    * SIX WEEKS TEST

    COMPOSITION
    * SIX WEEKS TEST

    Friday, November 10
    GRAMMAR
    * Go over test in grammar.
    COMPOSITION
    * Read and analyze some parts of passages as to controlling idea and supporting details.