"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."
                          --Franklin Roosevelt



READING COUNTS DUE December 2

Week of November 28-December 2

Monday:

• Library

• Narrative: write a story about a time you learned a valuable lesson

• Plot chart (show 3 pigs example)--due tomorrow

Tuesday:

• Plot chart due!!

• Prefixes packet (due Thursday, quiz Friday)

Wednesday:

• Commas mini lesson

• Hooks --add notes to notebook

• Write hook for your story (task cards with groups)

Video about beginning/hooks:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2H29fRVqf8

Thursday:

• Roots packet due

• Commas mini lesson 2

• Hooks-classroom google collaborative (write 2 of your leads in the chart projected onto the screen)

• Choose a hook for your story--share with group/write it as first paragraph for rough draft (in notebook)

Friday:

• RC due!!

• Roots quiz

• Commas mini lesson 3

• Write personal narrative rough draft

ADVANCED: Monday:

• Library

• chapter Quiz

• Fig lang chart--ch 3 (one side only)

Tuesday

• Read ch 5

• Roots/prefix packet due Thursday

Wed:

• Racial Segregation video (watch video and answer questions)

• Start 6/handout for notes on this chapter

Thu:

• Packet due

• Read ch 6

Fri:

• Prefix/roots quiz

• Book discussion groups

• mood/tone discusison

****************************************************************** Week of November 21-22

ADVANCED ELA: Monday:  

Moby Max

Read first half of chapter 3

Tuesday;

Moby Max

Finish chapter 3, assign chapter 4 for homework

Monday

• Library, book talk

• Pass back and Go over Fish Cheeks answers

• Socrative/Fish Cheeks

• Eeking out a Life due today (check answers, return for redo if needed)

• Theme question??

• Moby max

Tuesday

• Print RC lists for book talks

• Moby max certificates/read

******************************************** November 14-18

 

Monday

• Library,

• Eeking Out a Life (read silently, answer questions on Google classroom)

Tuesday--testing day

• Finish Eeking Out a Life

• mobymax

Wednesday-. -Awards assembly

• Fish Cheeks--read/annotate (due tomorrow)

Thursday--testing day

• MobyMax/Read

• Work on late/missing work :(

Friday

• Socrative quiz on Fish Cheeks

• Redo eeking out a life RACE question

• Moby Max--literature

ADVANCED ELA: Monday:

• Library

• Read p. 1-10 of Roll of Thunder

• Discuss

Tuesday (testing day, shortened schedule)

• Finish sharecropping webquest

Wednesday (awards assembly--no 3rd hour)

• Finish ch 1

Thursday (testing--shortened schedule)

• Moby max

Friday

• Chapter 1 character match chart

• Ch 2

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Week of November 7-11

ADVANCED ELA:

Week of November 7-11

Monday

• 3 Skeleton key imagery activity

• 3 skeleton key race question

• library/check grades

Tuesday-no school

Wednesday

• Eeking Out a Life

Thursday

• Sharecropping webquest

Friday

• Finish webquest

• Read ch 1

Week of November 7-11

ELA: Monday

• 3 Skeleton key imagery activity

• 3 skeleton key race question

• library/check grades

Tuesday-no school

Wednesday

• Eeking Out a Life

Thursday

• Sharecropping webquest

Friday

• Finish webquest

• Read ch 1

ELA: Monday:

• Library day

• Finish Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Tuesday:  no school

Wednesday:

• Plot chart

• Imagery chart

• RACE question

Thursday:

• Finish RACE question

• MOBY Max--capitalization quiz tomorrow

Friday:

• Capitalization quiz

• Socrative of 3 Skeleton Key---space race

**************************************************** ELA: October 31-Nov 4

Monday

• Library

• Roots packet  (roots 2, due Thursday, Quiz Friday)

Tuesday

• Capitalization pretest

• Moby max when finished (5 badges)

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Wednesday

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Thursday

• Collect Roots packet

• Snap, Crackle, Pop

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Friday

• QUIZ (Roots/Affixes)

• RC due

• Three Skeleton Key

ADVANCED

October 31-Nov 4

Monday

• Library

• Moby max when finished (5 badges)

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Tuesday

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Wednesday

• Three Skeleton Key/close reading

Thursday

• Snap, Crackle, Pop

• Three Skeleton Key/plot chart collaborative Google Classroom activity

Friday

• RC due

• Three Skeleton Key/Collaborative Imagery activity on Google Classroom

***************************************************************** OCT24-28

ELA: Monday

• Reflection

• Library visit

• Read

Tuesday

• Finish reflection

• Moby Max

• Read

Wednesday

• Gather portfolio stuff!

• READ

• 5th Moby Max for half/Read for half

Thursday--no school

Friday--no school

ADVANCED: Monday

• Reflection 1

• Print essays/turn in with entry form (can also do this tomorrow)

• Read

Tuesday

• Finish reflection (if needed); do reflection 2 (from Cavato, short)

• Final day to turn in essays

• Moby max

• Read

Wednesday/shortened class periods due to Career Day

• Organize portfolios

• Read

************************************************************************** Week of October 17-21

ADVANCED: Monday

• Library/book talk from Ms. Stroups

• Check grades

• Work on rough draft

Tuesday

• Roots packet (due Thursday, quiz Friday)

• Work on rough draft/due Wednesday

Wednesday

• Capitalization pretest

• Working on rough draft

Thursday

• Collect Roots 2 packet

• Type/Type final copy/word counts/use thesaurus!!!

Friday

• Roots/Affix Quiz (socrative)

• Type/submit for editing remarks

ELA: Monday:

• Library/book talk from Ms. Stroups

• Moby max/check grades first

• Story maps are due

• Work on rough draft (5 :) tricks, but at least 4 different types)

Tuesday

• Return papers

• Work on rough

Wednesday

• Dialogue tags mini-lesson

• Add dialogue to rough draft.

• Peer editing

Thursday

• Context clues task cards 1-12

• Type final copy

Friday

• Type final copy (edit using grammarly, google translate)

• Moby max

• Read

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October 10-14

ELA: Monday:

• Library

• :) Face Tricks

Tuesday:

• Smiley Face Tricks (discussion, practice, and notes)

Wednesday:

• Smiley Face Tricks

Thursday:

• Identify Smiley Face Tricks in reading passage (Seventh Grade by Gary Soto)

Friday:

• Identify Smiley Face Tricks in reading passage

• Story map on 7th Grade

ADVANCED:

Monday:

• Library/check grades

• JS article (The Long Fight Over Immigration)

• Discussion questions on Google Classroom

Tuesday:

• Discussion questions cont’d

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Wednesday

• Discussion Questions

• TED talk on "American Dream"

• Take notes on video

Thursday

• prewrite/graphic organizer on "The America I Believe In" writing prompt

Friday

• work on essay

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October 3-7
ELA:

Monday:

• Library

• Finish stations

Tuesday:

• Roots 1 packet (due Thursday/quiz Friday)

• Stations due!

Wednesday:

• Smiley Face Tricks (writing techniques) notes and discussion

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Thursday:

• Roots 1 due

• Snap, crackle, pop review game

• Smiley Face Tricks notes and discussion

Friday:

• Roots/Prefix Quiz

• Smiley Face Tricks notes and discussion

ADVANCED ELA:

Monday:

• visit library

• stations

Tuesday

• Stations

• Roots packet (due Thursday, Quiz Friday)

Wednesday:

• Watch 10 minute immigration video (Junior Scholastic)

• While watching video, students must jot 1 thing they find surprising and 1 thing they’d like to know more about (post its)

Thursday:

• Roots packet due

• Read article/annotate

• Discussion questions

• Questions (socrative) over article

• Article “I survived anyway”--one RACE question

Friday:

• Quiz

• Complete JS activity

**************************************** September 26-30

September 26-30 ADVANCED ELA:

Monday:

• Library

• Chromebook--check grades

• Complete Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups (Use smiley face tricks)

Tuesday:

• Mobymax placement, lessons

• Finish up Complete Secret Knowledge typing (due FRIDAY)

Wednesday:

• Read Rikki-tikki-tavi

Thursday:

• Finish  Rikki tikki

• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi stations

Friday

• RTT RC

• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi stations

ELA

Monday:

• Library/check grades

• Read Rikki-tikki-tavi

Tuesday:

• MobyMax

• Rikki tikki tavi cont’d

Wednesday:

• Prefix 3 Quiz

• Finish Rikki tikk

• Kahoot It

Thursday:

• Rikki tikki stations

Friday:

• Rikki tikki RC

• Rikki tikki stations

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September 19-23
ELA

• Monday:

  • Library/check grades

  • Annotate “Unto Others”

• Tuesday:

  • Elements Test

  • Collect annotations for a grade after test

• Wed:

  • Prefix 3--add to notes (due Friday), quiz next Wed

• Thursday:

  • Mobymax (Language)

  • work on Prefix 3 (due tomorrow)

• Friday:

  • READING COUNTS DUE

  • Prefix 3 due today

  • Mobymax--capitalizing titles

ADVANCED:

Sep 19-23

Monday:

• Library/check grades

• Annotate Unto Others,

Tuesday

• Test, collect story annotations

Wednesday

• Smiley Face Tricks

Thursday

• Smiley face tricks

• Annotate 7th grade for smiley tricks

Friday

• MobyMax

• RC due

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Sep 12-16

ADVANCED:

• Monday:

  • Library

  • Prefixes 3, due Wednesday (quiz Friday)

• Tuesday

• Read “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto,

• Buddy read, Annotate all elements of fiction

• Wednesday

  • Prefix 3 due today

  • Work on questions

• Thursday

  • Finish questions, if needed

  • Passage for Test “Unto others” (Test Tuesday)

• Friday:

  • Prefixes 3 quiz

  • Provide time for annotating “Unto Others”

ELA:

• Monday:

  • Library

• mood/tone notes notes, tone and mood wksht in groups

• Tuesday

• Read “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto,

• Buddy read, Annotate all elements of fiction

• Wednesday

  • still annotating

• Thursday

  • work on questions

• Friday:

  • • Finish questions, turn in

    • Passage for Test “Unto others”

    • Provide time for annotatin

     

***************************************** Sep 5-9

• Monday: No School

• Tue:

  • Elements of Fiction flip chart in notebook

  • Add character traits to notebook

Wed: Continue to add elements of Fiction notes

• Add confict notes

• Types of conflict wksht in groups

• Theme notes

Thur: Continue elements notes

• Setting notes, setting wksht in groups

   Fri:

• Moby Max "Language" placement
• RC due today!!

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Aug 29-Sep 2

• Monday:

  • Aimsweb usernames/passwords

  • Prefixes Flocabulary

  • Prefix packet (quiz Friday)

  • Library day

• Tuesday: Aimsweb

• Wednesday: Aimsweb, work on/study prefixes

• Thursday:

  • Add vocab chart to notebook and fill out

  • Turn in prefixes

  • Begin R.A.C.E. lesson

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• Friday:

  • Prefix quiz

  • Finish up RACE lesson

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Week of August 22-26
Monday: Set up Interactive Student Notebooks, visit library, silent reading
Tuesday: Set up Google accounts, set up RC accounts, silent reading
Wednesday: Set up Google Accounts, Review rules/procedures
Thursday: Lexile testing
Friday: Rules and Procedures quiz

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First Week of School 
August 17-19
Wednesday: Intro to RMS
Thursday: Six Word Memoirs (due tomorrow)
Friday: Intro to Reading Counts, visit library to check out books for the weekend