7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 3
January 22-26, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, January 22

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.

* GRAMMAR
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations
* COMPOSITION
     - Practice Prove It! strategy.
     - Students share their writing with a peer.

Tuesday, January 23

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Selma

* GRAMMAR

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations

* COMPOSITION

     - Review the basic expository strategies.

     - Continue with Prove Its!

Wednesday, January 24

*Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

* GRAMMAR

     - Students take a quiz on the expository strategies.

* COMPOSITION

    - Students copy a list of redundant expressions that can be simplified to avoid clutter.

Thursday, January 25

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

* GRAMMAR

    - Student presentations

* COMPOSITION

    - Students add details to their essay

Friday, January 26

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
* COMPOSITION
    - Students add details to their essay

7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 2
January 15-19, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, January 15

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Revisit The Gifted Hands

* GRAMMAR
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations
* COMPOSITION
     - Review the basic expository strategies
     - Work towards revising the benchmark essay

Tuesday, January 16

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Revisit The Gifted Hands

* GRAMMAR

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations

* COMPOSITION

     - Review the basic expository strategies

     - Work towards revising the benchmark essay

Wednesday, January 17

*Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

* GRAMMAR

     - Student presentations of STAAR questions and answers

* COMPOSITION

    - Model how to insert meaningful details into body paragraphs

Thursday, January 18

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.

* GRAMMAR

    - Student presentations

* COMPOSITION

    - Students add details to their essay

Friday, January 19

* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
* COMPOSITION
    - Students add details to their essay

7th Grade Writing

Fourth Six Weeks

Week 1
January 8-12, 2018
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, January 8

* Teacher workday

Tuesday, January 9
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Revisit The Gifted Hands
* GRAMMAR
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
     - Go over benchmark test through student presentations
* COMPOSITION
     - Review the basic expository strategies
     - Work towards revising the benchmark essay

Wednesday, January 10
*Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* GRAMMAR
     - Student presentations of STAAR questions and answers
* COMPOSITION
    - Model how to insert meaningful details into body paragraphs
Thursday, January 11
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
* COMPOSITION
    - Students add details to their essay

Friday, January 12
* Great Lives, Great Deeds: Martin Luther King, Jr.
* GRAMMAR
    - Student presentations
* COMPOSITION
    - Students add details to their essay

7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 5
December 18-22, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 18

* Movie for Great Lives, Great Deeds: The Gifted Hands

Tuesday, December 19
* Talent Show (RMS Cafeteria)
* Movie for Great Lives, Great Deeds: The Gifted 

Wednesday, December 20
* Show students their final writing scores.

Thursday, December 21
* Christmas socials
* Early release

Friday, December 22
* CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 4
December 11-15, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 11

Math DBM

Tuesday, December 12

Reading DBM

Wednesday, December 13

Writing DBM

Thursday, December 14
* Go over test.

Friday, December 15
*Go over test.

7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 3
December 4-10, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, December 4

* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR: Students come up with the identification of sentence mistakes through sentence problems. They fix the sentence mistakes, label the mistakes, and define the mistakes.
* Pre-benchmark test

COMPOSITION: 
* Students rewrite their rough drafts

* Students with teacher brainstorm the topic of this prompt: Write an essay explaining the importance of honesty in friendship.
* Students are guided to make an outline.

Tuesday, December 5
* Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR
* Pre-benchmark test

* Sentence combining through sentence problems

COMPOSITION
* Give the different patterns of leads with examples.
* Give sample expository essays  and articles with different leads.
* Students identify and emulate the leads after many discussions.
* Students start writing rough draft of essay and to finish the introduction.

Wednesday, December 6
* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
GRAMMAR
* Go over test.
* Sentence combining using different types of sentences through sentence mistakes to practice creating variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION

* Students write their  body paragraphs with the use of EXPLANATION, EXAMPLE, LINK as well as strategies using HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT, LITERATURE, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (HELP).
* Students write their conclusions using CONCRETE, ABSTRACT (CA) as well as INSIGHT, REPHRASE, ADVICE (IRA)

Thursday, December 7
GRAMMAR
* Students practice using variety of sentence structures.
* Go over test.

COMPOSITION
* Students turn-in their essay.

Friday, December 8
* Students turn-in revised essay.
* Go over test.

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7th Grade Writing

Third Six Weeks

Week 2
November 27-December 1, 2017
"There are no shortcuts. Rome was not built overnight. Brick upon brick is the structure built."

Monday, November 17

* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR: Students come up with the identification of sentence mistakes through sentence problems. They fix the sentence mistakes, label the mistakes, and define the mistakes.

COMPOSITION: 
* Students rewrite their rough drafts

* Students with teacher brainstorm the topic of this prompt: Write an essay explaining the importance of honesty in friendship.
* Students are guided to make an outline.

Tuesday, November 28
* Journal Entry:Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson

GRAMMAR

* Sentence combining through sentence problems

COMPOSITION
* Give the different patterns of leads with examples.
* Give sample expository essays  and articles with different leads.
* Students identify and emulate the leads after many discussions.
* Students start writing rough draft of essay and to finish the introduction.

Wednesday, November 29
* Journal Entry: Great Lives, Great Deeds: Ben Carson 
GRAMMAR
* Sentence combining using different types of sentences through sentence mistakes to practice creating variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION

* Students write their  body paragraphs with the use of EXPLANATION, EXAMPLE, LINK as well as strategies using HISTORY, ENTERTAINMENT, LITERATURE, and PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (HELP).
* Students write their conclusions using CONCRETE, ABSTRACT (CA) as well as INSIGHT, REPHRASE, ADVICE (IRA)

Thursday, November 30
GRAMMAR
* Students practice using variety of sentence structures.

COMPOSITION
* Students turn-in their essay.

Friday, December 1
* Students turn-in revised essay.

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