Lesson Plans March 26-30, 2012

English - 7th Grade
Monday: Chapter 8 Lesson 1 What Is a Clause? text p. 186-187 - PowerPoint - Interactive Activity - Workbook p. 148 and write 5 sentences beginning with subordinate clauses
Tuesday: Hunger Games Field Trip - students who are not going will be working on Test Prep
Wednesday: Lessons 2, 3, & 5 Simple & Compound Sentences p. 189, Complex Sentences p. 192, and Compound-Complex Sentences p. 198 - Workbook p. 151, 155, 161
Thursday: Lesson 4 Kinds of Dependent Clauses text p. 194-195 - Workbook p. 158
Friday: Test - Sentence Variety and Ch 8 Sentence Structure - open book, open note, open handout, open worksheet

Reading - 7th Grade
Monday: Metaphors in Poetry - Read "Mother to Son" p. 543, "The Village Blacksmith" p. 544, and "Fog" p. 547 - Workbook p. 167 & Selection Test Worksheet
Tuesday: Hunger Games Field Trip - students who are not going will be working on Test Prep
Wednesday: Read "The Rider" p. 521, "Seal" p. 522, "Haiku" p. 523 - Workbook p. 153 and Selection Test Worksheet - Bonus Write a Haiku
Thursday: Read "Sarah..." p. 582, "Weather" p. 584, and "One" p. 585 - Workbook p. 176 and Selection Test Worksheet
Friday: Narrative Poetry - Read "The Highwayman" p. 58, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" p. 563, and "How I Learned English" - Workbook p. 172, 174 and Selection Test Worksheet

Reading Lab - 7th Grade
Monday: Coach Lesson 1 Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes and Coach Lesson 2 Multiple Meaning Words
Tuesday: Hunger Games Field Trip - Lesson TBA
Wednesday: Coach Lesson 4 Denotation and Connotation and Coach Lesson 5 Specialized Vocabulary
Thursday: Science 3-1 Parts of a Definition
Friday: Science 3-2 Ways of Defining and 3-3 Deeper Understanding

Reminder - Every student must have 10 AR points by Thursday, May 10.

Lesson Plans March 19-23, 2012

English - 7th Grade
Monday: Varying Sentence Beginnings handout to KEEP - Write 3 sentences each of subject first, adjectives first, adverbs first, prepositional phrases first
Tuesday: MAP Testing
Wednesday: Varying Sentence Beginnings with Gerunds - Gerunds text p. 170 and Gerund phrases text p. 176 - Write 5 sentences gerunds first, write 5 sentences gerund phrases first, workbook p. 136
Thursday: Varying Sentence Beginnings with Participles - Participles text p. 172 and Participial phrases text p. 176 - Write 5 sentences participles first, write 5 sentences participial phrases first, workbookk p. 140
Friday: Varying Sentence Beginnings with Infinitives - Infinitives p. 174 and Infinitive phrases p. 176 - Workbook p. 142, 145

Reading - 7th Grade
Monday: Computer Lab - continuing Persuasive Power Project
Tuesday: MAP Testing
Wednesday: Computer Lab - finish Persuasive Power Project
Thursday: Introduction to Poetry - What Is Poetry handout - PowerPoint - Characteristics and Forms of Poetry text p. 506-507 - Workbook p. 150
Friday: Read Pat Mora poems "Maestro" text p. 509, "The Desert Is My Mother" p. 510, and "Bailando" p. 512 - Workbook p. 151 - Selection Test worksheet

Reading Lab -7th Grade
Monday: Coach Lesson 8 Sequencing p. 46-49
Tuesday: Coach Lessons 15 & 27 Text Questions and Text Features p. 74-77 and 128-131
Wednesday: Science reading 2-1 Chronological Time p. 15-19
Thursday: Science reading 2-2 Process Time p. 20-26
Friday: Science reading 2-3 General Time Markers p. 27-36

Lesson Plans March 12-16, 2012

English - 7th Grade
Monday: Writing On Demand Prewrite
Tuesday: Writing On Demand Final Draft
Wednesday: Analogies - Strategies for Solving/Common Types - Worksheets Identifying Relationships and Finding Analogies in Relationships
Thursday: Worksheets Completing Analogies and Solving Analogies
Friday: NO SCHOOL

Reading - 7th Grade
Monday: Application Test - Fact/Opinion, Persuasive Techniques, Author's Purpose
Tuesday: Continue Test
Wednesday: Computer Lab - Group Activity Persuasive Power Project
Thursday: Computer Lab - Persuasive Power Project continued
Friday: NO SCHOOL

Reading Lab - 7th Grade
Monday: NBA Lessons 4, 7, 2
Tuesday: Reading for Details - Worksheet Finding Main Ideas and Details
Wednesday: Making Inferences - NBA Lesson 6
Thursday: Science Reading 3A & B, 5A & B
Friday: NO SCHOOL

Lesson Plans March 5-9, 2012

English - 7th Grade
Monday: What Is Persuasive Writing? - Persuasive Writing Types Explanation/Examples
Tuesday: Continue looking a persuasive writing examples
Wednesday: Read information concerning earthquakes, particularly those occurring long the New Madrid Fault (this is to practice prompt based writing on demand)
Thursday: Read information about what to do during an earthquake and how to prepare for an earthquake - Homework will be a Home Check Worksheet
Friday: How to write an editorial  - Editorial Graphic Organizer

Reading - 7th Grade
Monday: Persuasive Terminology - Fact & Opinion/Inferences and Conclusions - Coach Practice p. 60-61, 72-73
Tuesday: Propoganda and Bias - Worksheet Human Hoax - Worksheet Understanding Author's Purpose
Wednesday: Persuasive Techniques - Coach Lesson 12 - Worksheets
Thursday: Persuasion in Ads - Old Coach Ch 17 - PowerPoint Activity - Worksheet 2 Ads
Friday: Coach Critical Analysis

Reading Lab - 8th Grade (Monday-Wednesday ONLY)
Watching "Gettysburg" DVD

Reading Lab - 7th Grade (Thursday and Friday)
Thursday: BrainPop Jr. Main Idea
Friday: Coach Lesson 6 Main Idea - Practice p. 40-41 - Stated and Implied Meanings

Reminders: AR Points due Monday, March 5 at 3:00 P.M. and ALL Hunger Games criteria due Friday, March 9 (this includes permission forms, money, AR points/projects)