7th Grade ELA

Students took their SAT 10 Quiz. Note: SAT 11 list will be passed out next week and the quiz will be on the following Friday because of the break.

We continued to work through the essay. Continue to work on it at home and have a rough draft completed by Monday.

FINAL DRAFT DUE ON TUESDAY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE HOUR, PRINTED AND READY TO SUBMIT.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Worked through the concluding paragraph today. We will continue working on the essay tomorrow through Monday. Note that the new due date for the essay (printed and ready to submit) is Tuesday, November 26, 2019. For 5th and 6th hours, specific instructions were given as to when they will submit. Because of the PBIS basketball game during 5th and 6th hour, 5th hour students will turn in their essay when they report to 5th hour for quick attendance prior to going to the game, 6th hour students will will submit their essay after the game when they are told to report to the end of 6th hour for attendance. Don’t forget to get your essay from your locker on your way back.

Study SAT 10 terms for tomorrow’s quiz. Reminder that the retake for SAT 9 is on Monday, November 25 during lunch.

VERY IMPORTANT: Your body 2 and body 3 on the graphic organizer are to be completed for tomorrow. These are due at the beginning of the hour tomorrow. We will work on the conclusion in class.

In class, I continued to model the introduction and body 1 with specific suggestions as to how to build the body paragraphs. Students were given time to work on their body paragraph 2 & 3.

SAT 9 quizzes were returned and retake is on Monday during lunch.

We are continuing through the process of writing and have worked through the introduction and body paragraph 1. Students will work through body paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 tomorrow, the conclusion on Thursday. Tentative due date is this upcoming Friday – typed, formatted, and printed to submit.

Continue studying SAT 10.

Thank you for those of you who were able to make it out to parent-teacher conferences. I really enjoyed meeting all of you and discussing your child’s progress. It seems that we all agree that reading is the key to expanding the minds of our young ones. As I push kids here to pick up a book and read, please make sure to continue motivating your children.

If you tried to meet with me but was unable to or had a previous engagement and couldn’t make it, please feel free to email me at houryf@dearbornpublicschools.org to touch base. I would be more than happy to email back or to give you a call.

We are working through the writing process: evaluating and knowing what the prompt question is asking, producing a solid thesis that responds intentionally to the prompt, developing a hook and providing background information. We completed a skeleton of what our introduction should look like. Students – make sure you build on what we developed.

We will continue to work on Body paragraph 1 tomorrow together.

Tentative due date for the completed essay is Friday, November 22, 2019.

H.W. SAT 10 & 30+ minutes of reading (SSR)

Took SAT 9 Quiz and worked on SAT 10 Quiz. Remaining time was spent on SSR.

H.W. SAT 10 worksheet

We continued working on My Learning Plan through eportfolio/Mahara. Please make sure if you didn’t complete this in class that you do so at home. You access this through ilearn.

We have started working on our “Dirk the Protector” essay by going through the process. Students have their prompt question and graphic organizer. I will be leading, then asking them to work on parts of this on their own. They have guides to help them in their resource section of the binder. Today, we were able to break down the prompt question to make it more accessible and understandable. Students also developed responses to the prompt by creating thesis statements which we will assess more closely tomorrow. The tentative due date for this essay is Friday, November 22, 2019.

Conferences will commence on Monday from 4-7.

SAT 9 quiz tomorrow- Be prepared

Reminder: The book fair begins next week. We are scheduled to be there on Monday so please bring money if you are planning to purchase anything.

Students took the SAT 8 quiz today and received SAT 9 – to be completed for Monday.

Time was spent in the library getting books &/or renewing books.

Have a great weekend.

Continued with looking at format and content in essay writing. Reviewed our “Thank you M’am” essay.

Finished up discussion on “Dirk the Protector” and textual evidence in support of the elements of a memoir.

Some classes received the essay prompt and graphic organizer for “Dirk the Protector” where we were able to break down the prompt question to simplify the language. The rest of the classes will get it tomorrow. However, we will start off working on the graphic organizer together in class with some guidance before I hand it over to students to finish up.

H.W. SAT 8 quiz is tomorrow – be ready! There are only 5 SAT words for tomorrow’s quiz.

H.W. Study for SAT 8 and continue with your reading at home

We will continue working through our planning for our “Dirk” Essay throughout this week and next! Looking forward to some great writing.