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