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