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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