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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