7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 5
December 18-22, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 18

* Movie for Great Lives, Great Deeds: The Gifted Hands

Tuesday, December 19
* Talent Show (RMS Cafeteria)
* Movie for Great Lives, Great Deeds: The Gifted 

Wednesday, December 20
* Show students their final writing scores.

Thursday, December 21
* Christmas socials
* Early release

Friday, December 22
* CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 4
December 11-15, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 11

Math DBM

Tuesday, December 12

Reading DBM

Wednesday, December 13

Writing DBM

Thursday, December 14
* Go over test.

Friday, December 15
*Go over test.

7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 3
December 4-10, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 4

* 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.
* Pre-benchmark test

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, December 5
* Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR
* Pre-benchmark test

* 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, December 6
* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
GRAMMAR
* Go over test.
* 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, December 7
GRAMMAR
* Students practice using variety of sentence structures.
* Go over test.

COMPOSITION
* Students turn-in their essay.

Friday, December 8
* Students turn-in revised essay.
* Go over test.

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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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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

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.

7th Grade Writing

Second Six Weeks

Week 4
October 30-November 3, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, October 30

* Journal entry, Quotable Qoutes, "  If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I do not have it in the beginning." Gandhi

GRAMMAR* Engage students the use of WHO and WHOM; challenge them to write their own complex sentence using these relative pronouns. 

* Introduce the comma rules through the acronym FOILC ( fanboys, opener, interrupter, list, closer). Give examples of each with their technical names.

COMPOSITION

* Introduce students to what a controlling idea or thesis statement is and what it is not.

* Have them practice in creating several samples.
* Gallery walk with student samples and positive feedback.
*FOCUS, ZOOM IN
* Pizza Pie Slice (Narrowing down)
* General to particular stairs

Tuesday, October 31

* Quotable Quotes: ( Gandhi) student response 

GRAMMAR

*Practice each comma rule in sentences
* Share sentences.

COMPOSITION

* Have students choose a prompt of their own making from previous activity.

* Have them freewrite about the topic they chose to bring out ideas on the topic.

* Have them pinpoint an idea they really want to focus on.

* Formulate the controlling idea.
* Introduce the different kinds of leads.

Wednesday, November 1

* Quotable Quotes: ( Gandhi) student response

GRAMMAR

* Have students find comma rules in sentences in their own writing.
* Have them practice more comma rules.

COMPOSITION
* More sample of leads in published articles
* Students imitate those leads.

Thursday, November 2

*Quotable Quotes, Gandhi
GRAMMAR
* Comma rules practice

COMPOSITION
* Body paragraphs elements: topic sentence,details: history, entertainment,literature, personal experience (HELP)
* Samples

Friday, November 3
*Quotable Quotes, Gandhi
GRAMMAR
* Comma rules practiceCOMPOSITION
* Body paragraphs elements: topic sentence,details: history, entertainment,literature, personal experience (HELP)
* Samples

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