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!!!!