7th Grade Writing

Second Six Weeks

Week 2
October 16-20, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, October 16

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi): Student response

GRAMMAR* Engage students with sample  sentences for compound and complex.

* Build the foundation with questions like: Can you identify these sentences? What types of sentences are they? Do they differ from each other? In what ways? Are they the same? In what ways?

* Note the answers, and expand from them. Make definitions.

COMPOSITION

* Introduce students to what a controlling idea or thesis statement is and what it is not.

* Have them practice in creating several samples.

Tuesday, October 17
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response 

GRAMMAR

*Pass out hand-outs outlining the elements of a complex sentence: one or more main clause, one or more subordinating clause joined by subordinating conjunctions (AAAWWUUBIS).

* Explain how the complex sentence is punctuated and how the conjunctions are used.

COMPOSITION

* Have students choose a prompt of their own making from previous activity.

* Have them freewrite about the topic they chose to bring out ideas on the topic.

* Have them pinpoint an idea they really want to focus on.

* Formulate the controlling idea.

Wednesday, October 18

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response

GRAMMAR

* Practice identifying different types of complex sentences.

* Have students find complex sentences in their own writing.

* Have students write their own complex sentences.

COMPOSITION

* Revisit articles on Honesty (re: Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi)

* Give out an excerpt from Legend on Honesty

* Have students react to each selected paragraph. Make it personal.

* Introduce carousel writing where each student contributes a paragraph.

* Share with a partner.

Thursday, October 19

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response

GRAMMAR

*Compare and contrast the three types of sentences: simple, compound, complex.

* Students report on their findings. 

COMPOSITION

*Pass handouts on organizational structure of the expository essay.

* Show a sample expository essay.

* Analyze its elements and organization.

* Debate pros and cons of the issue.

Friday, October 20

* Quiz on complex sentences.

                                                                             

                                                                           

7th Grade Writing

Second Six Weeks

Week 1
October 9-13, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, October 9

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi): Student response
GRAMMAR* Engage students with sample  sentences: one simple, one compound, and another, complex.
* Build the foundation with questions like: Can you identify these sentences? What types of sentences are they? Do they differ from each other? In what ways? Are they the same? In what ways?
* Note the answers, and expand from them. Make definitions.
* Have students make their own sentences with complete subjects having prepositional phrases agreeing with the verbs.
COMPOSITION
*Ask students to define what they understand of expository essay: definition, analogy, or drawing.
*Share with group and afterwards with a peer.
* Process and give teacher definition.

Tuesday, October 10
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response (Postpone. Teacher has jury duty.)

GRAMMAR

*Worksheets of different simple and compound sentences.

Wednesday, October 11

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response

GRAMMAR

* Show different samples of simple sentences: natural, inverted, with compound subjects or simple predicates, long, short, etc.

* Show the model for compound sentences; teach students the FANBOYS song
* Show the pitfalls of students in identifying the simple from the compound sentences especially in lists and compound predicates.
COMPOSITION* Revisit articles on Honesty (re: Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi)
* Give out an excerpt from Legend on Honesty
* Have students react to each selected paragraph. Make it personal.
Thursday, October 12

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response
GRAMMAR
* Practice identifying the simple sentences from the compound sentences.
COMPOSITION
* Based on the articles, have students make a foldable with Topic/Theme/ Prompt titles.

Friday, October 13

*  Great Lives, Great Deeds: ( Gandhi) student response
GRAMMAR
* Introduce complex sentences and their essential parts.
* Introduce the acronym for the subordinating conjunctions:AAWWUUBIS plus the relative pronouns WHO, WHOM, WHICH, THAT
COMPOSITION
* Show a sample expository essay.
* Pass out the handouts on expository organizational charts and strategies.
* Give out a prompt on honesty.
* Debate on the pros and cons of the issue.

7th Grade Writing

First Six Weeks

Week 6
October 2-6, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, October 2

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi): Student response
* Go over the homework.
* Engage students with a wrong sentence where subject and verb do not agree.
* Build the foundation with questions like: What's wrong with this sentence? If so, how do you fix it? Why did you fix it that way? etc.
* Have now students define this rule. Have them lay down the elements about this rule: subject-verb agreement.Elements: Singular/plural nouns/pronouns; singular/plural verbs; present tense verbs; first, second, third persons
* Have students make their own sentences with complete subjects having prepositional phrases agreeing with the verbs.

Tuesday, October 3

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Explain in detail the natural and inverted order sentences,  and tie these with subject-verb agreement.* Practice fixing  subject-verb agreement problem  in increasingly more complicated sentences
* Practice sentence analysis


Wednesday, October 4


* Great Lives, Great Deeds:student response
* General review for the first common assessment


Thursday, October 5

* First Common Assessment

Friday, October 6
* Wrap-up the first six weeks: late work, missing assignments, etc.

7th Grade Writing

First Six Weeks

Week 5
September 24-29, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 25

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Lincoln): Student response
* Grade quizzes
* Engage students with a wrong sentence where subject and verb do not agree.
* Build the foundation with questions like: What's wrong with this sentence? If so, how do you fix it? Why did you fix it that way? etc.
* Have now students define this rule. Have them lay down the elements about this rule: subject-verb agreement.Elements: Singular/plural nouns/pronouns; singular/plural verbs; present tense verbs; first, second, third persons
* Use Legend for this purpose as well as student journal. 

Tuesday, September 26

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Practice fixing  subject-verb agreement problem  in increasingly more complicated sentences
* Practice sentence analysis


Wednesday, September 27


* Great Lives, Great Deeds:student response
* Practice sentence analysis: subject-verb agreement
* What is the simple subject/s? What is the simple predicate/s? Do they agree?
* Practice recognizing verbs..


Thursday, September 28
* Election of student council officers* Great Lives, Great Deeds: student response
* Practice sentence analysis: subject-verb agreement* Practice recognizing verbs..

*Introduce natural and inverted sentences and their relevance to writing.



Friday, September 29
* Professional Learning Day

7th Grade Writing

                                               First Six Weeks

Week 4
September 18-22, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 18

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi)
* verb phrase quiz
* Notes on parts of a sentence: subject and predicate

* Important parts of speech that compose a subject and predicate: noun, pronoun, verb

* Proving subject and predicate

* Use Legend for this purpose as well as student journal.



Tuesday, September 19

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice proving subjects and predicates in increasingly more complicated

* Proof of locating subject and predicate


Wednesday, September 20

* Journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicates.

* Introduce complete subjects and complete predicates as well as simple subjects and simple predicates.

* Practice identifying and explaining the above.


Thursday, September 21

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicate.

* Introduce kinds of sentences according to use: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory.

* Practice locating them in the book Legend.

*Introduce natural and inverted sentences and their relevance to writing.



Friday, September 22

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Quiz on sentences and parts of speech

* Silent reading of Legend

First Six Weeks

Week 3

September 11-15, 2017

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 11

* Journal entry, Great Lives, Great Deeds (Gandhi)

* Remembering 9/11

* Grade quiz

* Notes on more helping verbs

* Practice identifying verb phrases and proving them.

* Use Legend for this purpose

 

Tuesday, September 12

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice proving nouns, verbs, verb phrases

* Introduce the definition  and parts of of a sentence .

* Proof of locating subject and predicate

Wednesday, September 13

* Journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicates.

* Introduce regular and irregular verbs with the three principal parts of a verb.

* Practice the recitation of the above.

Thursday, September 15

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Practice locating subjects and predicate.

* Introduce kinds of sentences according to use: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory.

* Practice locating them in the book Legend.

Friday, September 16

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Quiz on sentences

* Silent reading of Legend

                                                                            

                                                                                   

                                                                                       

                                                                                          

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First Six Weeks

Week 2

September 4-8, 2017

"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, September 4

* General assembly

* Grammar Keepers-Journal Writing

* Parts of speech foldable

* Nouns, definition, example, usage proof

* Incorporate nouns in the journal entry

Tuesday, September 5

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Regular and irregular plurals

* Proof of nouns

* Nouns in journal entry

Wednesday, September 6

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Verbs, definition, example. usage proof

* Kinesthetic activity about verbs

* Incorporate verbs in journal writing

Thursday, September 7

* Grammar keepers-journal writing

* Verb phrases, definition, example, proof

* Proof of verb phrases (helping verb-main verb)

* Incorporate verb phrases in journal writing

Friday, September 8

* Cover page inspection of binder and writer's notebook

*Quiz on parts of speech, nouns, and verbs

*Launch book report formats