
Teacher | Laura Raulerson |
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Subject Area | ELA/ Reading |
Grade Level | 7 |
Week # | 3 |
Unit of Instruction | Persuasive Speaking and Baseline Testing |
Standard(s) Taught |
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LAFS.7.L.2.3a – Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy. |
Learning Targets and Learning Criteria |
Baseline Reading and Writing Assessments: Strengths- Baseline assessments are given to assess a students knowledge on a subject prior to instruction. These assessments can be very informative and valuable in a teacher’s planning and implementation. By assessing your students’ prior knowledge teachers are able to compare results. – Students will provide an evaluation of whether the reasoning is sound in an argument. – Students will provide an evaluation of whether evidence is sufficient and relevant to support a claims. |
Classroom Activities |
Monday, September 14: Baseline Writing Assessment. Students will write a baseline argumentative essay. Half of the class will complete diagnostic, half will read Call of the Wild Tuesday, September 15: See Monday’s plan. Students who did NOT complete baseline writing assessment Wednesday, September 16: Baseline Reading Assessment. Students will log in to their Vportal. On One half will work on iReady diagnostic, one half will work on Close Reader Thursday, September 17: See Wednesday plan. Those who worked on iReady will work on Close Reader pg. Friday, September 18: Vocabulary quiz. |
Assignments Due |
Friday, September 18: Close Reader pg. 63 Friday, September 18: Vocabulary quiz |
Additional Resources |
To access The Call of the Wild at home, copy and paste this link into a new search bar: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215 To access a Quizlet to study the new vocabulary terms, copy and paste this link into a new search bar: https://quizlet.com/_8ons53?x=1jqt&i=ijbnh |