7th Grade Language Arts

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Finish Cornell Notes: Types of Sentences pages R63-R64 Parts 9.1-9.5
• When finished: choose two pieces of evidence that support your claim (Are video games harmful or beneficial?) from NewsELA and AVID articles to use for your CER paragraph that we will write tomorrow. Place a star next to these two pieces of evidence so they are easy to find tomorrow.
• 7.Z.4
• 8.AA.4
• 9.X.5
• 10.X.5
• 11.U.5
• 12.U.5

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses, Kinds of Sentences
• STUDY prefixes 1-5, QUIZ THURSDAY OCTOBER 11th

Upcoming Tests:

• Prefix Quiz 1-5 Thursday, October 11th

Due Dates:

• IXL Skills Card Marking 1: DUE Friday, November 2nd

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Finish talking to the text: AVID Video Games Article. If finished, SSR or review Prefixes 1-5
• Pop Up Discussion: Video Games: Good or Bad? Cite your evidence!
• IXL Cornell Notes: Kinds of Sentences- Textbook pages R63-R63 Part 9: 9.1-9.5

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses
• STUDY prefixes 1-5, QUIZ THURSDAY OCTOBER 11th

Upcoming Tests:

• Prefix Quiz 1-5 Thursday, October 11th

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Copy Cornell Notes- Argumentative Essay
• **If you were absent yesterday, pick up word chunks packet and copy 1-5 from a peer.
• Talk to the Text: 2nd Video Games Article
• With a partner, annotate and talk to the text.
• SSR

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses
• STUDY prefixes 1-5, QUIZ THURSDAY OCTOBER 11th

Upcoming Tests:

• Prefix Quiz 1-5 Thursday, October 11th

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: SSR
• Prefix Pre-Test
• Prefix notes 1-5
• Argumentative Writing CN- Review
• SSR

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Fill out “My Learning Plan”- Language Arts
• IXL/NWEA
• If finished, SSR

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Continue annotating NewsELA article
  • Add notes to all highlighted/underlined sections: why did you feel this was important?
  • Add 2 more notes following sentence stems from “Talk to the Text” bookmark
  • When finished annotating, SSR
• IXL- Homophones, Capitalization, NEW: Independent/Dependent Clauses

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones, Capitalization, Independent and Dependent Clauses

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY
• 10/12- Half Day: Dismissal at 11:05
• 10/17- Late Start

Agenda:

• Bellwork: Independent/Dependent Clauses notes
• Read and annotate NewsELA article
• SSR

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones and Capitalization

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY

Agenda:

• Bellwork- CN Step 4
• Share CER- Is Her Dad an Alien? With partner, add on to reasoning
• Writing prompt exercise
• SSR

Homework: 

• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones and Capitalization

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY

Agenda:

• New seats- now meeting in room F7!
• Homophones Bellwork
• Norms discussion
• CER Reasoning Practice- Is Her Dad an Alien?
• SSR

Homework: 

• Finish CER Worksheet- Is Her Dad an Alien?
• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones and Capitalization

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY

Agenda:

• Homophones Bellwork
• CER Reasoning Practice: “My Dad is an Alien”
• IXL/NWEA work time

Homework: 

• Gather classroom materials- remember SSR book each day
• FINISH IXL Skills- Homophones and Capitalization

Dates to Remember:

• 10/2- PICTURE DAY