Theme: Overcoming Struggles
Rationale: You are now in 7th grade and about to be presented with many new situations. This class is designed to help you overcome some of the struggles you are (or will) experience. You will be reading some short stories, some novels, and learning about some real people who overcame real struggles.
Unit 4: To Kill a Mockingbird
Essential Questions:
1. How does culture effect storylines? 2. How do I use textual details to make inferences about other areas of the text? 3. What life lessons can I learn from novels? |
Essential Skills:
1. I can determine aspects of culture and time period that effects the story. 2. I can use textual evidence to create a fictitiously accurate map of Maycomb. 3. I can learn many life lessons from TKAM. |
March 2-6
Mar 2: Mapwork
Mar 3: Mapwork Mar 4: Draft Due Mar 5: Movie Mar 6: Movie |
February 24-28
Important Dates:
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Feb 24: Chapter 24-25
Feb 25: Chapter 26-27 Feb 26: Mapping Maycomb; Locations and Characters Feb 27: Read Chapter 28-29 Feb 28: Finish Novel; Locations and Characters |
February 17-21
Important Dates:
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Feb 17: No School
Feb 18: Write script Feb 19: Write script Feb 20: Acting/Filming Trial Scene Feb 21: Read Chapter 23 |
February 10-14
Important Dates:
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Feb 10: Read Chapter 22
Feb 11: Finish Trial Notes Feb 12: Introduce Script lesson Feb 13: Write script Feb 14: No School |
February 3-7
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Feb 3: Plickers Ch 17, TKAM Trial Notes - Bob and Heck Tate
Feb 4: Read Chapter 18 Feb 5: TKAM Trial Notes - Mayella; Read Chapter 19 Feb 6: Plickers Ch 19; TKAM Trial Notes - Tom Robinson Feb 7: Plickers Ch 20; Read Ch 21; Finish TKAM Trial Notes, Locations and Characters |
January 27-31
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Jan 27: Spelling Bee Pre-Test; TKAM Courage writing and Interview
Jan 28: Read Chapter 12-13 Jan 29: Plickers Ch 12-13, Read Chapter 14 Jan 30: Plickers Ch 14, Read Chapter 15 Jan 31: Plickers Ch 15; Read Chapter 16-17 |
January 20-24
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Jan 20: No School - Teacher Inservice
Jan 21: Finish Chapter 8 Jan 22: Read Chapter 9, 10 Jan 23: Read Chapter 11 Jan 24: Chapter 11 Plickers, Writing prompt: Who has been the biggest mockingbird thus far in the novel and why? |
Semester Break
January 13-17
Important Dates:
Jan 15 - Last day to turn in missing assignments Jan 16 - Book Project Due Jan 17 - Bell Ringer Exam Jan 17 - End of Sem 1 |
Jan 13: Plickers Ch 4; Read Ch 5, Ch 6 in TKAM groups
Jan 14: Plickers Ch 5-6, Read Chapter 7 Jan 15: Symbols in the Knothole (Ch 7); Start Chapter 8 Jan 16: Bell Ringer Exam Jan 17: Half - Day, no class |
January 6-10
Important Dates:
Jan 15 - Last day to turn in missing assignments Jan 16 - Book Project Due Jan 17- Bell Ringer Exam Jan 17 - End of Sem 1 |
Jan 6: TKAM Prezi and Intro
Jan 7: Discuss Characters, Locations, Start reading Ch 1 Jan 8: Finish Ch 1; TKAM groups Jan 9: Read Ch 2, Ch 3 - Homework Jan 10: Plickers Ch 2-3; School Comparison; Read Ch 4 |
Unit 3: Overcoming Obstacles through Poetry
Essential Questions:
1. How do authors use figurative language to help paint a picture in their writing? 2. How is poetry constructed? 3. What is poetry analysis? 4. How is poetry published? |
Essential Skills:
1. I can understand and write using figurative language. 2. I can write and understand the construction of poetry. 3. I can read, understand, and analyze poetry. 4. I can use a variety of methods to publish my poetry. |
December 16-20
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Dec 16: Grinch Analysis
Dec 17: Grinch Presentation Dec 18: Grinch Dec 19: Grinch Dec 20: Grinch |
December 9-13
This Week
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Dec 9:
Dec 10: Dec 11: Dec 12: Dec 13: |
December 2-6
This Week
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Dec 2: I am From poem
Dec 3: Metaphor/Simile poems Dec 4: Rhyme Scheme; Syllables Dec 5: Personification; Hyperbole Dec 6: Sound Devices |
Unit 2: Exploring Obstacles through The Haymeadow
Essential Questions:
1. How are themes established in texts and how do they carry throughout the text? 2. How do elements of a story (characters, setting, plot, etc) interact with one another? 3. How do authors use inferences to help the reader better understand the text? |
Essential Skills:
1. I can identify and analyze themes within texts and analyze their development throughout the course of the text. 2. I can analyze how story elements interact with each other. 3. I can identify and analyze inferences used in texts. |
Essential Texts:
1. The Haymeadow - Gary Paulsen |
November 25-27
This Week
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Nov 25: Watch Haymeadow Videos
Nov 26: Author Visit Nov 27: School Cancelled |
November 18-22
This Week:
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Nov 18: Haymeadow Project - Begin
Nov 19: Haymeadow Project Nov 20: Haymeadow Project Nov 21: Haymeadow Project Nov 22: Haymeadow Project Due |
November 11-15
Nov 11: No School
Nov 12: Go over obstacles so far; theme group work; read chapter 17-18 Nov 13: Read Chapter 19-21 Nov 14: Read Chapter 22-24 Nov 15: Read Chapter 25; briefly discuss final project; watch Charlie Chaplin Film |
November 4-8
Nov 4: Read Chapter 10
Nov 5: Read Chapter 11-12 Nov 6: Character activity Nov 7: Finish Character Activity; Read Chapter 13-14 Nov 8: |
October 28-November 1
Oct 28: What would you bring?; Ch 4-5
Oct 29: Wagon Activity,Chapter 6 Oct 30: Finish Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Continue Wagon Oct 31: Read Chapter 8 Nov 1: Read Chapter 9 |
October 21-25
Oct 21: Haymeadow pre-reading
Oct 22: Read Ch 1 Oct 23: ACT Aspire Testing - Play Snake Oil Oct 24: Discuss Characters, Make Character charts; Read Ch 2 Oct 25: Discuss Ch 2; Make predictions for Ch. 3; Read Ch 3 |
Unit 1: Exploring Obstacles through Short Stories
Essential Questions:
1. How do different elements of English work together to create a good short story? 2. How does the skill of compare and contrast help readers relate themselves to the story? 3. How can textual evidence be used to further explain a point? 4. How do the 6+1 Traits of Writing work to improve writing? |
Essential Skills:
1. I can read and understand short stories by applying short story terms to reading the stories. 2. I can use the skills of compare and contrast to relate myself to a main character from a story. 3. I can use textual evidence from the story to further explain my point. 4. I fully understand and know how to use the 6+1 Traits of Writing. |
Essential Texts/Resources:
1. To Build a Fire: Jack London 2. Rip Van Winkle: Washington Irving 3. Rikki Tikki Tavi: Rudyard Kipling 4. 7th Grade: Gary Soto 5. "The Lorax": Dr. Seuss 6. The Moustache: Robert Cormier 7. This is What it Means to Say Phoenix... |
October 14-18
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Oct 14: Go over rubric; Story drafting
Oct 15: Story drafting Oct 16: Story peer/self editing Oct 17: No School Oct 18: No School |
October 7-11
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Oct 7: Propaganda and Flipgrid
Oct 8: Watch Flipgrids Oct 9: Introduce Short Story Final Project Oct 10: Conferences about short story Oct 11: Work on Short Story Prewriting; Begin drafting story |
September 30-October 4
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Sept 30: Propaganda, Propaganda assignment
Oct 1: Propaganda Rubric; Choose Lorax sides Oct 2: Work on Lorax propaganda assignment Oct 3: Work on Lorax propaganda assignment Oct 4: Present on Lorax propaganda assignment |
September 23-27
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Sept 23: Finish 7th Grade stuff
Sept 24: Read "The Lorax" Sept 25: Finish The Lorax Sept 26: Book Advertisement In Library, checking out books Sept 27: No Class |
September 16-20
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Sept 16: Finish story term posters; present posters, take notes
Sept 17: Begin Plot Diagram Sept 18: Read 7th Grade, Gary Soto Sept 19: Finish 7th Grade - Gary Soto Sept 20: Work with pods to complete plot diagram and comprehension questions, Flipgrid ca002ff3 |
September 9-13
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Sept 9: Editing and Revision day, correct errors
Sept 10: FlipGrid Day (Code - 33ece5e1) Sept 11: FlipGrid Day (Code - 33ece5e1) Sept 12: Begin short story unit, choose terms, work on posters, etc. Sept 13: Short story term posters |
September 2-6
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Sept 2: No School
Sept 3: Welcome Back! Discuss Classroom expectations Sept 4: Get to know me activity, etc. Sept 5: Animal Paragraph introduction. What animal are you most like and why? Thesis Statements; Write Animal Paragraph Sept 6: Body Sentences, conclusion sentence, picture |