7th Grade ELA

Reminder that open house is tonight starting at 6 p.m. Please make sure you bring your child’s schedule (paper copy or planner or check student connect). I look forward to meeting as many parents as possible.

This week, students created their first Cold Write essay over the reading, “Thank you, M’am”. This is a baseline from which I can then begin to plan our writing units. It gives me a clear picture of what I need to do to help your children become better writers.

We have allocated the remainder of the week to completing the Reading portion of NWEA.

Summer work was collected today.

We continued working on annotating as I modeled how to annotate the short story, “Thank You, M’am”. 5th hour students, make sure you finish the rest of the reading for Monday.

Students will be writing an essay in class on Monday and Tuesday of next week. NWEA-Reading is scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Welcome to a new school year! I look forward to a great year ahead.

Updates for this week:

1. Summer assignment (SSR) is due on Friday, September 6. Please make sure to review and add more information where needed. See me if you need my input. We will schedule book talks next week.
2. Please make sure you have your notebook, binder, highlighters, pens/pencils with you so that we can begin getting organized.
3. We will continue to work on annotations this week as we move from Langston Hugh’s poem, a “Dream Deferred” to his short story, “Thank you M’am). I have closely modeled annotation guidelines and distributed the book mark to be used for the remainder of the school year. We will work on our first writing sample this week and through next week.
4. NWEA-Reading is scheduled for next week.

Please feel free to email me at houryf@dearbornschools.org with questions.

Students submitted their questions for Legend today.  Time was provided for reviewing and for me to answer any questions about  concepts below.  Students got a sneak peek at the test to see how it is set up so there is no confusion.

H.W.  Prepare for your exam

Review for “Legend”

Characters: ·       June ·       Day – What does “Day” mean ·       Metias ·       Thomas ·       Tess ·       Commander Jameson ·       Chian ·       Kaede ·       John ·       Eden ·       Day’s Parents ·       June’s Parents

Ideas/Concepts ·       Point of view ·       Static/Dynamic characters ·       The trials (All trials, failing kids, process, and Day’s failure) ·       The plague ·       The Republic police (their manipulation) ·       Foreshadowing ·       Juxtaposition ·       Republic Values ·       Character Mindset and whether they change or not ·       Mindless and blind devotion

 

Students worked through the novel questions in class today.  They must finish up what was incomplete at home and print to submit at the beginning of the hour tomorrow (Tuesday, June 11th). No late submissions.  This is a summative assignment and counts as a portion of the exam for Legend.  Make sure you are following directions and presenting a very thorough response using textual evidence where needed and instructed.  Do not do #6.

H.W. Novel questions due the beginning of the hour tomorrow.

Exam over novel is on Wednesday, June 12th.  Review is in class tomorrow.

We have completed our reading of  Legend.  If you have missed any part of the novel make sure you get caught up. 

We are currently working on questions for the novel in class that will be due at the beginning of class on Tuesday for Summative Points.   Students must have it printed and ready to submit at the beginning of the hour on Tuesday.  No late submission will be allowed.  Although class time was provided today and will be provided on Monday, some students may need to complete this at home during the weekend. The pdf reading can be found simply by searching for Legend full book and clicking on the first search result with the pdf symbol.  You may use Control F to find specific words/ideas rather than have to look through the entire book for the passages.

Exam Review is on Tuesday.

Exam is scheduled for Wednesday, June 12.  The exam will comprise of 30+ questions over characters, concepts, events and main ideas in the novel.

 

We are almost done with Legend!  We will finish what is left of the book when we return from break.  Please make sure if you have missed any part, you get caught up using the link below. Do not wait until the last weekend to get caught up as it will be too much.

Reminder that the test over the novel is on June 12, 2019 and will comprise of 30+ questions over characters, events, symbols/concepts, quotes, and will have a portion where you will have to make a connection between passages and concepts being illustrated.

pdf link to the reading is below:

https://www.humbleisd.net/cms/lib/TX01001414/Centricity/Domain/5915/Legend%20-%20Marie%20Lu.pdf

 

** DO YOU HAVE THE SUMMER ELA READING PACKET FROM THE 8TH GRADE TEACHERS? MAKE SURE IF YOU MISSED WEDNESDAY’S CLASS PERIOD, YOU SPEAK TO YOUR 6TH HOUR TEACHER TO GET A COPY.  SEE ME WITH QUESTIONS!

Continued reading through Legend.  Make sure if you were absent, you catch up on the reading.

pdf link to the reading is below:

https://www.humbleisd.net/cms/lib/TX01001414/Centricity/Domain/5915/Legend%20-%20Marie%20Lu.pdf

H.W.  prepare for the vocabulary/novel quiz tomorrow (up to p.206)

Note to parents:  8th grade ELA teachers visited 7th grade classes yesterday during 6th hour to discuss the outgoing 7th grade summer reading assignment.  Students were given the instruction sheet, the sheets that need to be completed, and instructions on how to proceed.  

Moving ahead with the reading of Legend. Note that the quiz over this week’s vocabulary and the novel (up to 206) will take place on Friday.

Exam over the novel is scheduled for Wednesday, June 12.

H.W.  If you missed any of the reading in class, catch up by visiting the previous posts and use the link provided.

Moving ahead with the reading of Legend. Note that the quiz over this week’s vocabulary and the pages we read by the end of the day Thursday, will take place on Friday.

Exam over the novel is scheduled for Wednesday, June 12.

H.W.  If you missed any of the reading in class, catch up by visiting the previous posts and getting the link.