Week 7
Week 07 October
10/09/2023-10/13/2023
Applicable Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards
Conventions of Standard English:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Explain the function of phrases and clauses in general and their function in specific sentences.
Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.*
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
Spell correctly.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements.*
Spell correctly.
Knowledge of Language:
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.*
Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word's position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context.
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Key Ideas and Details:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Craft and Structure:
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Monday:
Healthy Youth Survey- You will need you Chromebook
Start Entry Task
Study the following idioms. You will be quizzed on them this sometime this week and tested this Friday.
Idiom - a form of expression natural to a language, person, or group of people.
Idioms Words of the Week -
Rank and file - The average members of an organization
2. Beat a dead horse - Spending time on something hopeless and unchangeable.
3. Let the cat out of the bag - To reveal a secret by mistake.
Academic Vocabulary Words of the Week -
comprehend – to understand.
2. contrast – compare or appraise in respect to differences
3. delineate – to describe with accuracy or in detail
Tuesday:
Start Entry Task
Gold Group -Kylie, Yamilette, Brooklynn, and Brailyn
Red Group - All others
Gold Group
You will start reading the reading guide to the book Al Capone Does My Shirts. See Google Classroom.
Study the 20 vocabulary words in the reading guide; you will be tested when we complete the book reading.
You will have 12 class days to read the book, 225 pages /12 = averages about 19 pages per day.
Red Group
Review week(s)
Clauses
Subject
Verbs
Wednesday:
Start Entry Task
Gold Group
Continue reading Al Capone Does My Shirts
Red Group
Simple sentences overview and practice
Compound sentences overview and practice
Thursday:
Start Entry Task
Gold Group
Continue reading Al Capone Does My Shirts
Red Group
Copy simple, compound and complex sentence sentences overview and practice
Friday:
Start Part 1 Entry Task
idioms/academic nouns and verbs/sentence type test
SSR -Sustained Silent Reading