DOBERT ELA 7

NWEA LANGUAGE PRACTICE:

• Compare your work to the online version of the mermaid/surfer story and make sure you have made the correct changes.
• THE ONLINE VERSION OF THE STORY WAS ON THE IBLOG YESTERDAY.
• Study WSG7 book page 590. Then answer 1-9 from page 591 on a sheet of loose leaf.
• IXL – ELA – 7TH GRADE LEVEL – Y5 – score must reach 80. If you’re on probation, you should try to reach 100.

MERMAID/SURFER INTERACTIVE VERSION:

https://chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Comma_Splices_and_Fused_Sentences

• Staple your NWEA loose leaf and your NWEA HINTS sheet together, then drop them in your hour’s bin.
• COMPOSITION BOOK page #5 directions have been posted.

IF YOUR NWEA SCORE WENT UP …

First, finish your BW. Keep it on the table. Then you may have very, very, VERY quiet free time while students are testing. You may use headphones. You must remain in a seat where no one is near you. SILENCE!

IF YOUR NWEA SCORE WENT DOWN …

Continue adding more and more and more sentences to today’s BW or choose some other ELA work to do. You must work very, very, VERY quietly. You must remain in your testing seat.

IF YOUR NWEA SCORE STAYED THE SAME … that means you’re older now but your reading level is the same so that means your score went DOWN.

CHOICES FOR STUDENTS ON PROBATION:

• CHECK STUDENT CONNECT AND WORK ON YOUR MISSING ASSIGNMENTS!
• Work on your composition book.
• Think of some high level ELA work you could do.
• IXL
• “She lived on Mars”
• Read a book.
• Read a Scholastic SCOPE or ACTION article then write a summary.
• Make flashcards and study them.
• Week 15

PROBATION

You WILL be on probation for many, many, many days if your NWEA score STAYS THE SAME OR goes DOWN.

• Extra HW.
• Assigned seats.
• No bathroom breaks.
• No headphones.
• No buying things with polar points.
• Extra ELA help after school.
• No free time.
• No reading dodgeball, etc.
• No participating in challenges.

IF YOUR NWEA SCORE GOES UP, the teacher will give you a lot of FREEDOM and choices and privileges in this class.

There will be VERY NICE PRIZES for the student who gets the HIGHEST NWEA score and for the student who JUMPS the most points on the NWEA.

READING BASKETBALL?

If you have worked the whole hour and you have sick shooting skills or would like to improve your shooting skills (and possibly win some polar points), drop your name into the Ethiopian coffee box.

IF YOU HAVE FINISHED ALL OF TODAY’S DIRECTIONS AND YOUR IXL SCORE REACHES 80 OR HIGHER IN CLASS TODAY, YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO WORK ON.

HEADPHONES?

If you have your OWN headphones or ear buds, you are welcome to use them in class today.

If you would like to borrow my headphones, drop your name into the Happy Birthday box.

LEAVE YOUR ASSIGNED SEAT?

If you work VERY QUIETLY for 15 minutes, and then you VERY QUIETLY move to a new seat and VERY QUIETLY keep working, I probably won’t say anything.

EXCEPTION: 4th hour did NOT get a good substitute report, therefore, 4th hour students should NOT leave their assigned seats. EXCEPTION TO THE EXCEPTION: 4th hour students who read the secret, and it is true of them, may leave their assigned seats today.

NEW INFORMATION: A little birdie told me that sixth hour was NOT perfect yesterday, so 6th hour’s move seat time is 20 minutes.

EXTRA CREDIT:

If you’re done with EVERYTHING … search up new “Keep Calm” memes and make a neat, colorful poster. You will earn 5 extra credit points AND a FREE HW card.

VOCABULARY:

[on a fresh sheet of loose leaf paper]

First, read “Amigo Brothers” pages 324-326 (ELA LIT BOOK).

Then write 10 NEW sentences in your own words that use the bolded words from the BOTTOM of page 323.

YES … I know you already did this with the substitute, but I want you to do it one more time to prove that you actually really understand the vocabulary words.

4th, 5th and 6th hours did NOT get a good report from the substitute.

We MIGHT do something fun today, but first you need to show some PERFECT behavior to make up for what happened yesterday. Here are your choices:

• Work on the “fun” holiday word search I made for you. You must highlight the words you find. THIS WILL COUNT FOR EXTRA CREDIT POINTS IF YOU ACTUALLY FINISH IT. You must use a variety of colors if you want full points.
• Get started on the winter break IXL assignments. You may use headphones.
• Work on the NWEA CORE LESSON from Thursday.
• 5th HOUR ONLY: If you have a perfect score for Week 14, you may have quiet free time the whole hour. YOU WILL ONLY GET ONE CHANCE.

WINTER BREAK IXL

Mrs. Sorenson assigned TWENTY IXL’s so please miss me with the fake tears.

These IXL categories WILL HELP with your NWEA score.

This assignment WILL COUNT on this report card.

IXL – ELA – 7th grade – K.5 “supporting details” – Your score must reach 80.

IXL – ELA – 7th grade – H.2 “different genres” – Your score must reach 80.

IXL – ELA – 7th grade – QQ.4 “quotation marks” – Your score must reach 67.

IXL – ELA – 7th grade – V.1 “context clues” – Your score must reach 80.

IF YOUR SCORE REACHES 100 ON ALL FOUR OF THESE BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 31, 2019, YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO COMPLETELY SKIP THE NEXT BIG QUIZ OR TEST (and you will be able to start the new year with all your ELA winter break work finished).

NWEA CORE LESSON: POETRY

1 – Make quick cards (word and definition only) for: form, line, stanza, free verse, rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, imagery, simile, metaphor, personification. If you don’t have flashcards, you can write the words and definitions on loose leaf.

YOUR DEFINITIONS MUST BE FROM THE ELA LIT BOOK PAGES 554-558.

2 – STUDY THE CARDS!

3 – IXL – 5th grade or higher – POETRY – NOT RHYME SCHEME – Your score must go from zero to 80. If you score 100, you will earn one polar point.

HW:

Please read the iBlog from Tuesday to review what is happening tomorrow.

YOUR NWEA SCORE MUST GO UP!

Let’s try something a little different today.

After you complete the NWEA CORE LESSON, you are free to choose what you want to work on. Your work must be LANGUAGE ARTS!

Your NWEA papers will be collected AFTER BREAK and will count as a test score (summative).

NWEA CORE LESSON: CHARACTERS

“Climbing Skull Mountain”

1 – On a fresh sheet of loose leaf paper, neatly copy at least TWO Jordan quotes and TWO Eddie quotes.

2 – After each quote, explain IN YOUR OWN WORDS (elaboration) what this quote shows about the character.

3 – IXL – 5th grade – ELA – H.1 “actions, dialogue, characters”

YOUR IXL SCORE MUST REACH 80. If your score reaches 100, you will earn one polar point.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AFTER YOU FINISH THE NWEA LESSON:

• Scrooge restate questions are due TODAY. If you’re finished, drop it in the bin.
• If you finished HW.lost.balloon, drop it in the bin.
• IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WORK ON … draw and color the horse. If your work is chosen for display, you may choose 5pp or a free HW card.
• COMPOSITION BOOK PAGE #4 HAS BEEN POSTED!