7th Grade Writing

First Six Weeks

Week 6
October 2-6, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, October 2

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi): Student response
* Go over the homework.
* Engage students with a wrong sentence where subject and verb do not agree.
* Build the foundation with questions like: What's wrong with this sentence? If so, how do you fix it? Why did you fix it that way? etc.
* Have now students define this rule. Have them lay down the elements about this rule: subject-verb agreement.Elements: Singular/plural nouns/pronouns; singular/plural verbs; present tense verbs; first, second, third persons
* Have students make their own sentences with complete subjects having prepositional phrases agreeing with the verbs.

Tuesday, October 3

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Explain in detail the natural and inverted order sentences,  and tie these with subject-verb agreement.* Practice fixing  subject-verb agreement problem  in increasingly more complicated sentences
* Practice sentence analysis


Wednesday, October 4


* Great Lives, Great Deeds:student response
* General review for the first common assessment


Thursday, October 5

* First Common Assessment

Friday, October 6
* Wrap-up the first six weeks: late work, missing assignments, etc.

7th Grade Writing

First Six Weeks

Week 5
September 24-29, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 25

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Lincoln): Student response
* Grade quizzes
* Engage students with a wrong sentence where subject and verb do not agree.
* Build the foundation with questions like: What's wrong with this sentence? If so, how do you fix it? Why did you fix it that way? etc.
* Have now students define this rule. Have them lay down the elements about this rule: subject-verb agreement.Elements: Singular/plural nouns/pronouns; singular/plural verbs; present tense verbs; first, second, third persons
* Use Legend for this purpose as well as student journal. 

Tuesday, September 26

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Practice fixing  subject-verb agreement problem  in increasingly more complicated sentences
* Practice sentence analysis


Wednesday, September 27


* Great Lives, Great Deeds:student response
* Practice sentence analysis: subject-verb agreement
* What is the simple subject/s? What is the simple predicate/s? Do they agree?
* Practice recognizing verbs..


Thursday, September 28
* Election of student council officers* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Practice sentence analysis: subject-verb agreement* Practice recognizing verbs..

*Introduce natural and inverted sentences and their relevance to writing.



Friday, September 29
* Professional Learning Day

7th Grade Writing

                                               First Six Weeks

Week 4
September 18-22, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 18

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi)
* verb phrase quiz
* Notes on parts of a sentence: subject and predicate

* Important parts of speech that compose a subject and predicate: noun, pronoun, verb

* Proving subject and predicate

* Use Legend for this purpose as well as student journal.



Tuesday, September 19

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice proving subjects and predicates in increasingly more complicated

* Proof of locating subject and predicate


Wednesday, September 20

* Journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicates.

* Introduce complete subjects and complete predicates as well as simple subjects and simple predicates.

* Practice identifying and explaining the above.


Thursday, September 21

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicate.

* Introduce kinds of sentences according to use: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory.

* Practice locating them in the book Legend.

*Introduce natural and inverted sentences and their relevance to writing.



Friday, September 22

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Quiz on sentences and parts of speech

* Silent reading of Legend

First Six Weeks

Week 3

September 11-15, 2017

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 11

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi)

* Remembering 9/11

* Grade quiz

* Notes on more helping verbs

* Practice identifying verb phrases and proving them.

* Use Legend for this purpose

 

Tuesday, September 12

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice proving nouns, verbs, verb phrases

* Introduce the definition  and parts of of a sentence .

* Proof of locating subject and predicate

Wednesday, September 13

* Journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicates.

* Introduce regular and irregular verbs with the three principal parts of a verb.

* Practice the recitation of the above.

Thursday, September 15

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicate.

* Introduce kinds of sentences according to use: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory.

* Practice locating them in the book Legend.

Friday, September 16

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Quiz on sentences

* Silent reading of Legend

                                                                            

                                                                                   

                                                                                       

                                                                                          

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First Six Weeks

Week 2

September 4-8, 2017

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 4

* General assembly

* Grammar Keepers-Journal Writing

* Parts of speech foldable

* Nouns, definition, example, usage proof

* Incorporate nouns in the journal entry

Tuesday, September 5

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Regular and irregular plurals

* Proof of nouns

* Nouns in journal entry

Wednesday, September 6

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Verbs, definition, example. usage proof

* Kinesthetic activity about verbs

* Incorporate verbs in journal writing

Thursday, September 7

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Verb phrases, definition, example, proof

* Proof of verb phrases (helping verb-main verb)

* Incorporate verb phrases in journal writing

Friday, September 8

* Cover page inspection of binder and writer's notebook

*Quiz on parts of speech, nouns, and verbs

*Launch book report formats