7th Grade LA
Corrections are due tomorrow!
Please use this link for the corrections paper for multiple choice questions:
Please use this link for the corrections paper for multiple choice questions:
Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly
We will be reading excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, non-fiction texts and several poems. Students will not be given books but rather the majority of the texts will be in their workbooks. They will have three for this Module.
Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly
We will be reading excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, non-fiction texts and several poems. Students will not be given books but rather the majority of the texts will be in their workbooks. They will have three for this Module.
Module 3: Slavery: The People Could Fly
We will be reading excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, non-fiction texts and several poems. Students will not be given books but rather the majority of the texts will be in their workbooks. They will have three for this Module.
This Module's Performance Task will completed with a partner.
Research Synthesis: Major Grade (Test)
The graphic organizer Google Doc in Google Classroom
Performance Task Product: Minor Grade (Quiz)
Student choice of a brochure, video, or other medium approved by Ms. Leahy. The intent of the product is to give information to other teens addressing the overarching question: Why are working conditions in the garment industry important to me?
Please notice we have another test this week. Be sure you are keeping up with the speech annotation and workbook pages.
Lyddie Petition Essay Grades: Corrections for the Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer were graded within the final draft.
Corrections for the Final Draft, Final Draft Citations & Opening / Conclusion Graphic Organizer will be graded within the Final Draft. Corrections are worth half-credit.
Notice the Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer is due on Friday.
Corrections/late work deadline is also Friday.
Corrections and/or late work will be graded by Monday evening. Students will be able to view their grades on Tuesday before I submit.
All Survival Factor's docs are in Google Classroom. Please unsubmit to see my feedback. If the feedback has already been resolved/rejected it can still be viewed. Click on the top where it says Last edit and then click on my name in the revision history.
Final drafts will be graded this weekend now that students have had time to make corrections. We will do a catch-up day early in the week where students will be given some time to make corrections to their essay.
We will be starting our essay on Lyddie next week.
Students should have finished reading the novel by next Monday!
Be sure you are keeping up with the reading! Your reading calendar including workbook pages is linked at the top of the Weekly Schedule Slide!
Survival Factors Essay:
- Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer has been graded. Corrections are worth 100% if completed by Wednesday (Core 3) or Thursday (Core 4) due to SmartBlock schedule.
- An electronic copy of the novel is at the top of your Google Classroom Feed
Be sure you are keeping up with the reading! Your reading calendar including workbook pages is linked at the top of the Weekly Schedule Slide!
Survival Factors Essay:
- Body Paragraph Graphic Organizer has been graded. Corrections are worth 100% if completed by Wednesday (Core 3) or Thursday (Core 4) due to SmartBlock schedule.
- An electronic copy of the novel is at the top of your Google Classroom Feed
By this time you should have a completed final draft for the M1U2 Survival Factor's Essay. All assignments for this are in Google Classroom.
Corrections for the "Loss of Cattle" final draft have been graded.
Snowdays!!
Lyddie- Student Reading Calendar : By this time you should have the work completed for Chapters 1-4. This is WB 1, 5, 8-9 and 16-19. Click on the Student Reading Calendar link to see the Workbook page numbers for each chapter
Monday: Corrections completed? Then enjoy your day!
Tuesday: Chapters 5-6 and WB pages (Chpt 5 is mostly done for you)
Wednesday: Chapters 7 & 8 and WB pages
Grammar Packets are due at the start of class on Monday! I will be going over the answers so no late packets can be accepted! A PDF of the packet is linked on the Weekly Schedule Slide.
Survival Factors Essay Final Draft due at the end of class on Tuesday!
Essay assignments are all in Google Classroom.
"Loss of Cattle" final draft was due last Tuesday and feedback has been given to those who had this turned in on time. One of the main purposes of this assignment was to complete a short writing assignment that included direct text evidence, citations and explanations similar to what students will be asked to do on their essay.
The essay will be almost entirely in Google Classroom. Please note the grammar packet on Thursday. I will be at a professional development but this packet is to prepare them for essay editing including how to properly punctuate quotations and identifying complete sentences.
"Loss of Cattle" final draft is due on Tuesday! Students used an Add-on called Grade-Proof to help them with spelling, grammar and readability of their paragraph. This is a major assessment grade!
Absent students: The rubric is on the final draft doc in Google Classroom and the instructions for the add-on are on this week's slides.
Please note that we have our major assessment on Friday. The NF/Fiction comparison chart and WB 76 are part of the preparation for this assessment.
Thursday will be a lesson on citations from our media specialist and then students will have time to work on editing and revising based on my feedback. The final draft will be due next Tuesday.
Due Friday: 2-3 sentence response to "How do individuals survive in challenging environments?" that you did in your created Google doc during class.
Paragraph work: Over the weekend I will give each of you individual feedback on your paragraph. You will have the class period on Tuesday to complete revisions. The revised and edited paragraph is due on Wednesday. This is worth a major assessment grade.
Students who did not complete all the gist notes for chapters 6-15 should still do so to help with future assignments. This will not help with the grade as it was a grade for Q1.
Powerschools deleted the category weights for many teacher's gradebooks. This has now been fixed and so the grade appears as it should. Please email me with any concerns.
Remember to complete assessment corrections for your Unit 1 assessment on the Dowry article in Google classroom! Your Reading Skills Assessment retake grades have been updated in Powerschool already!
WB will be collected on Thursday for the summary and reader's dictionary pages. Please see the slides for exact page numbers.
Students will take their last major assessment this Friday. It will be a multiple choice assessment on reading skills. Students will be able to do a corrections immediately after the assessment.
Interims were sent home Monday, 10/1. Any missing work and/or corrections must be turned in by Monday, October 8th. There is no excuse for student to be missing assignments however students in all three ELA classes have struggled with the concept of how culture, time or place influence identity. We are continuing to work on this very complex concept.
Last Tuesday, 9/25 students were provided:
- This Google doc of all work including pages and if it should have been turned in.
- A list of missing assignments
- Time to find/complete missing work
Interims were sent home Monday, 10/1. Any missing work and/or corrections must be turned in by Monday, October 8th. There is no excuse for student to be missing assignments however students in all three ELA classes have struggled with the concept of how culture, time or place influence identity.
Last Tuesday students were provided:
- This Google doc of all work including pages and if it should have been turned in.
- A list of missing assignments
- Time to find/complete missing work
Grades including corrections will be up to date on Monday's interims! Any remaining grade questions will be answered Monday.
Many students turned in corrections and/or missing work this week.
- The Mid-Unit Assessment is now on Monday. The Chpt 4 charts show great improvement but several of you are still a bit confused on what makes identity.
- Chapter 4's gathering evidence chart will be graded as an minor assessment grade so be sure that is turned in on time Thursday!
- Thursday's SmartBlock is open for any 7th grader who wants help with how culture, time or place influence identity or any other LA work.
Work: By this time you should have WB p 3 for chapters 1-5 (5 1st read), WB 12-13 (Chpt 3) and first read of "Time Trip: Sudan's Civil War" with unknown words/phrases highlighted and gist written. All of your WB pages should be complete except for p 2, 10, 12, 14 depending on how you did your notes for that chapter.
Want to get ahead? Complete WB p 18 (Chpt 4) and then complete a 1st read of Chpt 5 including finding unknown words and writing the gist. Please do NOT do p 19 as this is the most misunderstood concept and the focus of the review session.
Mid-Unit Assessment:
- Materials: You will be able to use your novel, workbook and any of your own notes to help you.
- Learning Targets: You will cite evidence to support your analysis of Nya's and Salva's character and your analysis of how the author develops and contrasts the points of view of Nya and Salva.
- Review: I have gone over your Gathering Evidence Graphic Organizer for Chpt 4. You will be given this back along with the same rubric for our assessment. We will work together to fix any errors before it is graded as a minor assessment.
- Date: We will have two lessons and then the assessment.
- Corrections: Major Assessment corrections will be worth 1/2 credit. This is a major assessment grade.
Slides for the week of 9/4.
You shouldn't need to look back at these slides as the format isn't very helpful. I collected up any work from this week that will be graded and will be allowing late work without penalty from Days 1-4 only. Please use the slides starting on 9/10 for any information.
remind invite 7th grade.pdfRemind allows me to schedule text messages to be sent to your phone. I send these for big due dates and almost daily during large projects or writing assignments. You can leave the class at any time and it does not require the app.
Replying to the Remind message will send me an email. I will make every effort to reply by the evening of the next school day if possible.
Module 1
Unit 1: Perspectives in Southern Sudan
Big Ideas and Guiding Questions
- Individual survival in challenging environments requires both physical and emotional resources.
- Authors of fiction both draw on and elaborate on historical facts in order to convey their ideas about what it was like to be alive during that time.
- How do individuals survive in challenging environments?
- How do culture, time, and place influence the development of identity?
- How does reading from different texts about the same topic build our understanding?
- How does juxtaposing multiple characters help an author develop and contrast their points of view?