7th Grade Writing

Fifth Six Weeks

Week 1
February 26-March 2, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, February 26
*Elegant Sentences: From The Old Man and the Sea
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Go over the test
*COMPOSITION
- Deconstruct the passages from the DBM 2 and reverse the writing process back to the outline.
- Model for students  how the author might have designed his outline before he/she wrote the piece.
- Talk through the modeling.
- Construct the outline.

Tuesday, February 27

* Elegant Sentences: From Bomb
* GRAMMAR

* Students are given question items to analyze and present to the class.

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

     -Students are assigned passages to deconstruct and reconstruct.
    - They work in groups..

    

Wednesday, February 28

*Elegant Sentences: From A Wrinkle in Time

* GRAMMAR

     - Students start presenting.
     * COMPOSITION

    - Students write their outlines in butcher papers and present.
    
Thursday, March 2

* Elegant Sentences: From Prodigy

* GRAMMAR

    - Present the items assigned. 
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students continue presenting the reconstructed outline.

Friday, March 2

YOUTH FAIR

7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 7
February 19-23, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, February 19
*Qoutable Quotes: The Peacock and the Crane
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK 2 WRITING
*COMPOSITION
- Students compare their paragraphs with that of a published author to see how close their version was to the published text.
- Models of how a paragraph can be de-cluttered and sentences combined.

Tuesday, February 20

* Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables
* GRAMMAR

* SIX WEEKS TEST:  Social Studies, Reading, Math, TELPAS

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

     -Students revisit their compositions to check on Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation,and Spelling (CUPS) .

    

Wednesday, February 21

*Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables

* GRAMMAR

     - TELPAS
     - Sentence continue editing their essay.

* COMPOSITION

    - Students begin reviewing expository strategies again.
    - Students practice making introductions using attention grabbers.

Thursday, February 22

* Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables

* GRAMMAR

    - Go over DBM 2 Multiple Choice test
    - Sentence combination/revision/editing
    -Mini-lesson on apostrophes in contractions and possessives

* COMPOSITION

    - Students practice making body paragraphs.

Friday, February 23

* Go over multiple choice test
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
    - Students are exposed to dialogue rules and practice same
COMPOSITION
    - Students practice conclusions.

7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 6
February 12-16, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, February 12
*Qoutable Quotes: The Peacock and the Crane
* GRAMMAR
* Presentation & explanation  from a question in DBM 2
*COMPOSITION
- Students compare their paragraphs with that of a published author to see how close their version was to the published text.
- Models of how a paragraph can be de-cluttered and sentences combined.

Tuesday, February 13

* Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables
* GRAMMAR

* DBM 1 Item Presentation

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

     -Students revisit their compositions to check on Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation,and Spelling (CUPS) .

    

Wednesday, February 14

*Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables

* GRAMMAR

     - Students continue grammar presentation
     - Sentence continue editing their essay.

* COMPOSITION

    - Students begin reviewing expository strategies again.
    - Students practice making introductions using attention grabbers.

Thursday, February 15

* Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables

* GRAMMAR

    - Student presentations
    - Sentence combination/revision/editing
    -Mini-lesson on apostrophes in contractions and possessives

* COMPOSITION

    - Students practice making body paragraphs.

Friday, February 16

* Quotable Quotes: Aesop's Fables
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
    - Students are exposed to dialogue rules and practice same
COMPOSITION
    - Students practice conclusions.

7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 5
February 5-9, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, February 5

NO CLASSES

Tuesday, February 6

* Video clip from "The Gifted Hands" about interns
* Students are grammar "interns", diagnosing sentence errors and fixing them.

* GRAMMAR

* Students are given "patients" with a chart history relating their "disease" (sentence mistakes).
* They analyze the sentence mistakes and fix them.
* They present their "findings" and "prescriptions" .

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations
     -Sentence combination/revision
* COMPOSITION

     -Students turn in their revised essays.

    

Wednesday, February 7

*Quotable Quotes

* GRAMMAR

     - Students continue grammar presentation
     - Sentence combining/revising

* COMPOSITION

    - Students copy a list of redundant expressions that can be simplified to avoid clutter.

Thursday, February 8

* Quotable Quotes

* GRAMMAR

    - Student presentations
    - Sentence combination/revision

* COMPOSITION

    - Students add details to their essay

Friday, February 9

* Quotable Quotes
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
    - Sentence combination/revision* COMPOSITION
    - Students add details to their essay