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NOTE THAT WEEK ONE IS THE WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 8/24/2020. EACH SUCCESSIVE WEEK IS IDENTIFIED BY THE DATE FOR THE MONDAY OF THAT THE SCHOOL WEEK.
All 7th Grade ELA classwork and assignments, both LITERATURE and GRAMMAR , are listed on this "Schedule of the Week-7" sub-page. For the full text and instructions of a specific assignment, GO TO GOOGLE CLASSROOM, Literature or Grammar as appropriate, and click on the assignment.
WEEK SEVEN: 10/5/2020
Mon: PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES - Students work on per class discussion 10/2
Tues: Grammar - INDIRECT OBJECTS explanation and sentence word order - WC p403, p404 Ex 5 Qs 1-5
Wed: Literature, The Red Corvair Socs Writing Assignment (3rd Party Omniscient Narrator); OZYMANDIAS - poetry, introduction to the poem and assignment to review and explain in student's own words; full explanation in class
Thurs: Literature review video of OZYMANDIAS - full explanation in 10/7 class and update notes on assignment: Grammar VERBS - Linking Verbs (3 sentences) predicate nouns/adjectives
Fri: Literature, The Outsiders Ch 9 - The Rumble and final rising action towards climax of novel; review The Red Corvair Socs writing assignments: Grammar VERBS Linking Verbs and predicate words
WEEK EIGHT: 10/12/2020
Mon: The Outsiders Ch 9 - Johnny's death CLIMAX of novel; review The Red Corvair Socs writing assignments review Ozymandias explanations: Grammar VERB TENSES
Tues: The Outsiders Ch 10 - Dallas Winston's death CLIMAX of novel; recitations of Ozymandias and review explanations - focus lines 6-8 The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: Grammar VERB Linking WKBK assignment
Wed: Review grammar assignments
Thurs: The Outsiders - Ch 11 (v brief) Verb Conjugation tables - basic three tenses, Present, Past, Future of a Linking Verb of their choice (per chat on the class meet)
Fri: The Outsiders - Ch 12 (final)
WEEK NINE: 10/19/2020
Mon: Literature, The Outsiders CHAPTER NOTES 9-12; assignments review Ozymandias explanations: Grammar VERB TENSES
Tues: Review The Outsiders Ch Notes; Grammar Verb Tenses.
Wed: Grammar Verb Tenses - PROGRESSIVE Tenses (progressive tense of verb "TO BE") and WC p412 Ex 12 (partly): Literature new task - Ozymandias Creative Writing Assignment (Sculptor's Story)
Thurs: Literature Ozymandias Writing Assignment - continue; Grammar - review Progressives PERFECT Tenses
Fri: The Outsiders - writing assignment
WEEK ONE: 8/24/2020
Mon: Parts of Speech re-cap; Grammar Writer's Choice (WC) Textbook Unit 8, Subjects, Predicates, Sentences: WC p297 Lesson 8.1 Kinds of Sentences, Ex 1 & Ex 2 students do VERBALLY in class. Literature - Class review/discussion of summer reading The Outsiders
Tues: Grammar Parts of Speech Handout review HOW TO CREATE GOOGLE DOC AND ATTACH/SUBMIT review; Sentences and Fragments WCp299 L8.2 - start; Review students' Book Extracts from last week;
Wed: Sentences and Fragments WCp299 L8.2 - students learn definition of sentence (has subject & predicate and expresses complete thought); Literature - Music (RVWilliams setting Ariel's Song), also music for Outsiders
Thurs: Writing Assignment - 8th Member of the Curtis Gang: Grammar WC p301 L8.3 Subjects and Predicates - review textbook and start exercises 5 & 6 WC p302 in class verbally; more time needed STUDENTS REVIEW HOW TO IDENTIFY VERBS IN A SENTENCE; review PoS Glencoe definition of a verb - verb the essential PoS in sentence, look at most important verb in English the verb "to be"
Fri: (28th) Grammar WC p303 L8.4 COMPOUND Subjects- review textbook, supplemented by whiteboard, 2 WHITEBOARDS PHOTOS ON STREAM different kinds of sentence - LOCATING THE SUBJECT (interrogatives - change words order, imperatives - the understood (You); Literature, poetry discussion and post ARIEL's SONG to google stream (selected student)
WEEK TWO: 8/31/2020
Mon: Grammar - in planner write The Rule About Subject-Verb Agreement for Compound SUBJECTS, review the rule and the whiteboards from last week; Literature finish reading Ch2 - students reading. Quick review of Ariel's Song posted on google stream
Tues: Grammar WC p367 L8.6 SIMPLE & COMPOUND Sentences (review sentence definition and "Run-on"s = more than one sentence punctuated as if just one.) Review Ex 11 (part) and HW WC p368 part Ex 11 questions 11-20: Literature, The Outsiders class read
Wed: Literature, The Outsiders - class read, Ch3 ; Grammar Unit 8 Sentences, Subjects Predicates Students complete PRE-TEST and post to the google classroom stream
Thurs: Grammar Unit 8 Sentences, Subjects Predicates class review PRE-TEST answers (google stream) and review areas of Unit 8 where focus required; practice sentences; preparation for Grammar Mastery Test; Literature, The Outsiders - class read, Ch4 and review character 3-word summaries
Fri: ZOOM MEETING Student Council Elections (does not impact 7th Grade English class)
STAR TEST - READING; Grammar Unit 8 Sentences, Subjects Predicates, Grammar Mastery Test - graded assignment: Outsiders Test - review Chapters 1 and 2 Quiz.
WEEK THREE: 9/8/2020
Mon: HOLIDAY
Tues: 9/8/2020 Literature, The Outsiders - class read, Ch4 finish and prepare chapter notes; Review poem Nothing Gold Can Stay; Grammar, Sentence Diagraming WC p563 Ex 1 - class draw diagrams to answer on screen
Wed: Review written teacher comments on The Outsiders Creative Writing assignment, The 8th Curtis Gang Member
Poetry (Outsiders) Nothing Gold Can Stay - explanation of meaning and review rhyming scheme, BIBLICAL ALLUSION etc. Post Beaming Notes re Poem, Read Ch 5 - hiding out at Windrixville
Grammar, Sentence Diagraming WC p564 Ex 2, 1-5 assignment, Diagraming for different kinds of sentences
Thurs: Grammar - (Mastery Test corrections Subjects, Predicates, Sentences and specifically The Rule About Subject-Verb Agreement for Compound SUBJECTS (RAS-VAfCS) - write in planners. REVIEW PARTS OF SPEECH definitions. Start NOUNS Unit - overview WC p379-386, Compound Nouns & plurals, WC p380 Exercises 1&2 verbally class. Then focus POSSESSIVE NOUNS, how to form and how to use
STAR Test (Reading) re-testing (possible)
Fri: STAR Test (Reading) re-testing; Grammar WC p379 NOUNS POSSESSIVES - write the Rule About Making Nouns Possessive (RAMNP) in planners review PoS definition; Literature, Poetry Robert Frost NGCS - RECITATIONS
WEEK FOUR: 9/14/2020
Mon: Literature, Poetry Robert Frost NGCS - RECITATIONS finish. (write with rhyming scheme and reference to PERSONIFICATION, ALLITERATION and BIBLICAL ALLUSION) Grammar Nouns, Possessives & Plurals review WC p386 Ex 8, Collective nouns WC p387 - discuss, whiteboard examples of collectives
Tues: 9/8/2020 Literature, The Outsiders - class read, Ch 6 (fire) and prepare chapter notes re plot/events, review sample; MUSIC QUIZ re The Outsiders; Grammar Collective Nouns WC p388 Ex9 and Ex10 (also for subject-verb agreement, looks at present tense regular verbs conjugation)
Wed: Literature, The Outsiders - discuss writing chapter notes for Chs 3, 4 and 5 (with title for each chapter); Grammar WC review COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Thurs: Outsiders Ch 6 read in class (the fire in abandoned church, part); Grammar - students do WC Review Exercises in class as ungraded grammar assignment
Fri: The Outsiders Ch 6 class read - finish fire ; Grammar review Nouns unit generally - address problem areas, Pre-Test Nouns
WEEK FIVE: 9/21/2020
Mon: Grammar - review RAMNP (in planners) and Pre-Test. REVIEW PARTS OF SPEECH definitions, Grammar NOUNS Pre-Test, students do Pre-test in class and all review together: Literature, finish class read of Chapter 6 (post-fire, hospital - the reconciliation).
Tues: Grammar NOUNS Mastery Test. Outsiders review chapter notes and do Outsiders Quiz Chs 3,4,5
Wed: MIDDLE SCHOOL (&4/5) ACTIVITY DAY ON CAMPUS (weather/air quality permitting) Cancelled: Review Mastery Test answers check for mastery of RAMNP, Sentence Diagraming; The Outsiders - Chapter 7, class read and chapter notes for
Thurs: Grammar - review any problem areas per Mastery Test and RAMNP, additional review exercises/explanations;
Fri: Grammar start new unit, VERBS Unit 10, WCp399 - refer to VERBS CLASSIFICATION DIAGRAM; The Outsiders continue reading Chapter 7, review chapter notes to date
WEEK SIX: 9/28/2020
Mon: Literature - review Literary Biographies Hinton and Frost - discuss google classroom plagiarism tool, Class Read The Outsiders Ch 8 (Hospital, Cherry the spy); The Outsiders, review chapter notes to date and set additional chapter notes assignment
Tues: Grammar VERBS CLASSIFICATION DIAGRAM - all students to have a hard copy; review different types (classification) of verb; WC p401 Transitive & Intransitive Verbs, share screen, work through sample questions & class votes on student answers in chat - Classwork assignment WC p402 Ex3 1-10: Music (Outsiders review)
Wed: MIDDLE SCHOOL (&4/5) ACTIVITY DAY ON CAMPUS (weather/air quality permitting) BEING RE-ARRANGED: WC Transitive & Intransitive - review assignment WC p402 Ex3 1-10, WC p405 INDIRECT OBJECTS
Thurs: 1st OCTOBER Literature, The Outsiders Chs 6,7,8 Test - additional music questions; Grammar Indirect Objects and Sentence Word Order, Sentence Diagraming:
Fri: Grammar - Literature, continue The Outsiders Chs 6,7,8 Test - and do music questions as bonus; Grammar LINKING VERBS and the verb "TO BE"