7th grade English Homework

7th grade English Homework

Date:	In Class:	Homework Assignment:
Wednesday 8/25/10 A-day	Welcome to seventh grade English! Today we will go over general procedures and expectations for the year including where to find homework and how to begin each class, and then we'll begin a small introductory activity.	1. Complete your "Interest Inventory" which will be collected tomorrow, Thursday, August 27th. 2. Find an ORB for ORB class. 3. Locate your red binder, one pack of loose-leaf, and one pack of binder dividers. Bring them to class tomorrow, with a box of kleenex for the classroom.
Thursday 8/26/10 B-day	We will continue discussing class procedures by going over the 7th grade English student contract and organizing binders.	1. Review your summer reading book by skimming the opening and closing pages and creating a character list. Go back into the book if you can't remember something. 2. Get your Student Contract signed by your parents
Friday 8/27/10 C-day	1. Hand in "Student Contract" 2. Label journals and go over procedures 3. Assign journal helpers 4. Journal entry #1 - summer reading	Finish your journal entry if necessary, and begin a reading log in the back half of your journal. Include in reading log: -book titles, authors and total pages -thoughts, reviews, opinions in at least 5 sentences For E.C. create an artistic interpretation of a scene or character from The Hunger Games
Monday 8/30/10 D-day	1. Hand in journals 2. Look at the 7th grade Shelfari page and discuss reading logs and e.c for outside reading 3. Begin Literary Devices Project by going over handout	Complete steps 1 & 2 of the Literary Devices Project handout
Tuesday 8/31/10 E-day	1. Literary device warm-up 2. HW check - steps 1 & 2 of lit devices proj. 3. Discuss any and all confusing terms 4. Practice finding examples in the children's book Come on, Rain 4. Work on Literary Devices Project	Start creating the pages for your literary devices project; write term names and definitions out on pieces of paper REMINDER: Booklets are due at the end of class Friday
Wednesday 9/1/10 F-day	1. Literary device warm-up 2. Practice finding examples in the children's book Roberto, the Insect Architect 3. Go over the grading checklist for the literary devices project. 4. Work on Literary Devices Project	Work on lit. devices project by creating illustrations tonight; booklets due at the end of class Friday REMINDER: Quiz on 16 Literary Devices next week Thursday
Thursday 9/2/10 A-day	1. Literary device warm-up 2. Review the grading checklist for the literary devices project. 3. Work on lit. device project	Continue working on lit. devices booklet; check over spelling and definitions, create more illustrations; booklets due at the beginning of class on Friday REMINDER: Quiz on 16 Literary Devices next week Wednesday
Friday 9/3/10 B-day	1. Literary device warm-ups 2. File student contract in your binder 3. Trade lit. device booklet with a classmate and complete the peer grading checklist for one another 4. Mini-lesson on sentences, fragments and run-ons - students take notes and begin working	No homework weekend, but you may want to review your literary device terms and definitions for next week's quiz REMINDER: grammar review work due next week Wednesday
Monday 9/6/10	No school - Labor Day
Tuesday 9/7/10 C-day	1. Literary device warm-up 2. Practice quiz and review game -- literary devices	Finish sentence, fragment and run-on review work for tomorrow; begin studying for Thursday's quiz on 16 Literary Devices
Wednesday 9/8/10 D-day	1. Literary device warm-up 2. Correct sentence, fragment & run-on handouts 3. THQ#1 handed-out and explained	Study for tomorrow's literary devices quiz
Thursday 9/9/10 E-day	1. Literary devices quiz 2. Work on THQ#1 3. Read an ORB	Finish THQ#1 for tomorrow; look it over carefully and review your notes on sentences, fragments and run-ons
Friday 9/10/10 F-day	1. Correct THQ#1 2.Correct literary devices quiz 3. Journal entry #2	Complete sentence, fragment and run-on work
Monday 9/13/10 A-day	Introduction to "active reading" and annotating	Complete sentence, fragment and run-on work REMINDER: picture day is this Thursday - wear your fall uniform, including third piece
Tuesday 9/14/10 B-day	1. Compare last night's HW with a classmate - HW check 2. Continue discussing "active reading" 3. Go over Active Reading Guidelines	Finish lesson TWO on "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto REMINDER: picture day is this Thursday - wear your fall uniform, including third piece
Wednesday 9/15/10 C-day	1. Active Reading and annotating discussion continues 2. Word-maps and vocabulary list for The Giver introduced	Complete lesson THREE on "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto REMINDER: picture day is tomorrow - wear your fall uniform, including third piece
Thursday 9/16/10 D-day	1. Complete a word-map for "distraught" and "palpable" 2. Look at other vocabulary activities that you'll do this year Go over hand-out on utopias	Read and annotate hand-out on utopias; be ready to discuss it tomorrow and to show your notes for a HW grade
Friday 9/17/10 E-day	1. word-map for "awed" 2. Share your ideas on last night's utopian reading - compare answers to questions and discuss: what would a utopia look like to you? 3. Journal entry #3 - write for 20 minutes without stopping	Finish journal entry #3 if necessary, and *bring The Giver* to class on Monday**
Monday 9/20/10 F-day	BE SURE to have The Giver with you EVERY DAY from now until mid-October! 1. Put your name in your copy of The Giver 2. Begin reading and discusing the novel as a class	1. THQ#2 due Friday 2. Read and annotate through the bottom of p. 19 in The Giver

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