Quarter 1 Week 8 October 1-5, 2018

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Teacher	Melissa Forney
Subject Area	ELA/Reading
Grade Level	7th
Week #	8
Unit of Instruction	Writing, rhetorical questions turned in to positive statements, renaming the main noun, book report books, reading aloud to parents

Standard(s) Taught
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
Learning Targets and Learning Criteria
My students will learn a more mature way of starting an informative or persuasive essay. My students will learn how to improve their writing by renaming the main noun. My students will learn how to write with descriptive writing. My students will learn how to harvest information from video and text sources.
Classroom Activities
symptoms – physical features that are regarded as indicating a condition or disease writhing – twisting or moving with great emotional or physical discomfort probed – physically explore or examine something with the hands or an instrument autopilot – a slang term that means to do something automatically quadrant – one fourth of a flat plane rupturing – bursting suddenly welled up – to steadily flow upwards or outwards, to feel a sudden increase in emotion that causes you to cry incision – a surgical cut made in skin or flesh flinch – make a quick, nervous movement of the face or body as a reaction to surprise, fear or pain cauterize – use a heated instrument to stop any bleeding, especially during surgery ricochet – something that bounces or rebounds one or more times off another surface, bouncing from place to place in a chaotic way koi – a large ornamental fish originally bred in Japan sanctuary – a place of refuge or safety, a place where one can retreat and be alone for a while slaphappy – tired to the point of being overly cheerful and silly
Assignments Due
Monday – New lesson on changing a rhetorical statement to a positive statement. New lesson on renaming a main noun. Finish diagnostic reading test, finish baseline essay on Think Cerca. Read Submerged. Sign up for book report book if you haven’t already done so. Homework – Read excerpt from Submerged aloud to your parent. Read slowly with expression. Parents should sign. Study spelling and vocabulary words. Write spelling words 10x each.* Read book report book 20 minutes before bedtime. Parent signature______________________________ Tuesday – Review rhetorical statements/positive statements and renaming a main noun. Read Submerged. Homework – Read second excerpt from Submerged aloud to your parent. Read slowly with expression. Parent should sign. Study spelling and vocabulary words. Read 20 minutes before bedtime. Parent signature______________________________ Wednesday – Independent reading. Writing lesson. NO HOMEWORK! Thursday – New lesson on writing with descriptive details. Read Submerged. Homework – Study spelling and vocabulary for tests tomorrow. Read 20 minutes before bedtime. Friday – Spelling test. Vocabulary test. Read Submerged. Informative writing.
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