7th Grade Writing

Fifth Six Weeks

Week 5
April 2-6, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, April 2
*Journal entry: Attention grabber: Funnel-Turnabout
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items.

*COMPOSITION
- Students go over their essays and teacher models how a piece of writing is edited with the use of CUPS (capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling).
* Apostrophes

Tuesday April 3

* Journal entry: Attention Grabbers: Question
* GRAMMAR

* * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

   - Students continue to work on their editing with member feedback and tutoring.
   - Past participles of irregular verbs

    

Wednesday, April 4

*Journal entry: Attention Grabber: Quotation

* GRAMMAR

     - * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
    - Dialogue
     * COMPOSITION

    - Students finalize their edited drafts.
    
Thursday, April 5

* Journal entry: Attention Grabber: Surprising Statement

* GRAMMAR

    -  DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
   - STAAR passage
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students start brainstorming another prompt.

Friday, April 6

* Journal entry: Attention Grabber: Imagery

* GRAMMAR

    - * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students make outline and rough draft of their essay.

Saturday, April 7
 *SATURDAY TUTORIALS!!!!

7th Grade Writing

Fifth Six Weeks

Week 4
March 26-30, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, March 26
*Journal entry: Short paragraph on one memorable moment during your spring break
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
*COMPOSITION
- Students go over their essays and teacher models how a piece of writing is edited with the use of CUPS (capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling).

Tuesday, March 27

* Journal entry: How do you feel about the upcoming STARR test in writing? Ready or need more preparation? If not ready, on what?
* GRAMMAR

* * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

   - Students continue to work on their editing with member feedback and tutoring.

    

Wednesday, March 28

*Journal entry: Something significant from what your book report or from what you are reading now

* GRAMMAR

     - * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
     * COMPOSITION

    - Students finalize their edited drafts.
    
Thursday, March 29

* Journal entry: Describe a scene from a movie or game that moved, touched , or got you excited.

* GRAMMAR

    -  DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students start brainstorming another prompt.

Friday, March 30

NO SCHOOL

7th Grade Writing

Fifth Six Weeks

Week 3
March 19-23, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, March 19
*Journal entry: Short paragraph on one memorable moment during your spring break
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
*COMPOSITION
- Students go over their essays and teacher models how a piece of writing is edited with the use of CUPS (capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling).

Tuesday, March 20

* Journal entry: How do you feel about the upcoming STARR test in writing? Ready or need more preparation? If not ready, on what?
* GRAMMAR

* * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations.
 * COMPOSITION

   - Students continue to work on their editing with member feedback and tutoring.

    

Wednesday, March 21

*Journal entry: Something significant from what your book report or from what you are reading now

* GRAMMAR

     - * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
     * COMPOSITION

    - Students finalize their edited drafts.
    
Thursday, March 22

* Journal entry: Describe a scene from a movie or game that moved, touched , or got you excited.

* GRAMMAR

    -  DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students start brainstorming another prompt.

Friday, March 23

* Journal entry: Make a prediction of what you ideally want as outcome of your STARR test.

* GRAMMAR

    - * DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question items (5).
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students make outline and rough draft of their essay.

7th Grade Writing

Fifth Six Weeks

Week 2
March 5-9, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, March 5
*Elegant sentences from literature with sentence imitation
* GRAMMAR
* DISTRICT BENCHMARK : Student presentation of assigned question item.
*COMPOSITION
- Deconstruct the passages from the DBM 2 and reverse the writing process back to the outline.
- Review for students  how the author might have designed his outline before he/she wrote the piece.
- Talk through the modeling.
-  Students construct the outline.

Tuesday, March 6

* 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, March 7

*Elegant Sentences: From A Wrinkle in Time

* GRAMMAR

     - Students start presenting.
     * COMPOSITION

    - Students write their outlines of a pre-assigned essay.
    
Thursday, March 8

* Elegant Sentences: From Prodigy

* GRAMMAR

    - Students present explanations of assigned questions.
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students write the rough draft.

Friday, March 9

* Elegant Sentences: From Prodigy

* GRAMMAR

    - Students present explanations of assigned questions.
    
* COMPOSITION

    - Students write the final draft.