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.