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.