7th Grade ELA

I hope you are enjoying your day off!

Reminder- make sure you complete your “Dirk the Protector” textual evidence wk.sheet. It is due at the beginning of the hour tomorrow for summative points. I will also be checking the SAT 8 wk.sheet tomorrow.

I hope you are having a great weekend!

If you didn’t finish up the SAT 8 wk. sheet, make sure to do so. There won’t be an academic vocabulary list this week. Make sure you are transferring words to the dictionary portion of your binder.

If our hour isn’t finished with the memoir presentations, we will finish it up tomorrow.

Have your novel with your tomorrow for library time.

Please make sure you are prepared for the SAT 7 quiz and “Dirk the Protector” quiz.

Enjoy your evening and be safe!

Completed our memoir posters and started presenting in class. We will continue doing this through tomorrow.

For Friday, you will have SAT 7 quiz and a 10+ question quiz over “Dirk the Protector”. I suggest you revisit the reading, look over the annotations and focus areas we talked about. Know the elements of a memoir and what passages best illustrate those elements. Review your graphic organizer for “Dirk” and look over your notes on Memoir.

H.W. Study SAT 7 terms, revisit “Dirk the Protector”

Students continued to work on memoir project with groups. Tomorrow groups will get 5-10 to finish up and present their work to their peers.

H.W. SAT 7 terms and finish up any part of the project that was your individual responsibility

I want to thank students for an insightful discussion today about reading and how societies are impacted by reading or lack of ! I am really enjoying how we have progressed with our analysis of situations and passages and how our discussions are gaining depth.

Rubric for the project was shared with students.

SAT 7 wk. sheet was checked in and we covered the Academic terms as they relate to “Dirk the Protector”.

Groups met to touch base and finish up the work for the project. All responsibilities/sheets should be completed tonight so students can put their posters together. Note: the biggest issue thus far has been explaining relevance of textual evidence in first person (Do not use I; rather, say “This passage best illustrate…”). Make sure your writing is legible as that seems to be a big challenge from some students.

Tomorrow, time will be provided to get the poster ready BUT YOU MUST HAVE THE WORK DONE WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH THE DOOR.

H.W. Finish memoir assignment that was assigned to you, Study you SAT 7 words, SSR

Took SAT 6 quiz and received SAT 7 list. Make sure the Academic terms examples are from “Dirk the Protector”.

We will continue to work in our groups on the memoir project on Monday. The due date is Tuesday.

Have a great weekend!

I will continue to check notebooks tomorrow!

Reminder: SAT 6 quiz is tomorrow- be ready! No retakes for SAT 6 & 7

We will continue to work on our group project in class tomorrow and Monday.

Note: I will not be accepting late work and there won’t be a retake for SAT 6 & 7 for the remaining week+ of the card marking.

The graphic organizer for “Dirk the Protector” was collected today. The vocabulary worksheet was returned with a grade.

We continued with our unit on Memoirs as students were able to choose 1 of 5 memoirs to focus on for the next few class periods.

I will be grading the SSR Reflections (12 of them) and the Bell Work (5 of them) in the notebook on Thursday and Friday. Below is the list of all the topics that you must have covered in there. Make sure you have the current novel you are reading with you. I will not accept this late and it will be a summative grade.

H.W. SAT 6 terms, Prepare your notebook for a check, looking ahead – there will be a quiz over “Dirk the Protector” next week. I will let you know which day on Monday.

Reflection:  #1 tell me the following information::

1. The title and author of the book 
   1. The lexile level 
   1. Why you chose this book 
   1. Something you already know about the events and the characters

Reflection #2: What do you know so far about your main character?  Think of the characterization and the 5 ways in which we create an understanding of a character:  thoughts, physical appearance, what others say about them, what they say, and their actions.  Hit on each one of those elements.

Reflection #3: Reflect on the style in which the author writes.  How does s/he appeal (get your attention) to you as a reader? 

Reflection # 4:List all the characters you have encountered thus far and give a brief summary of what you know about each. 

Reflection #5:  Write the excerpt from your novel that best provides imagery. Make sure you quote (“    “) and indicate the author’s last name and page # – example:  (Hughes 25). 

Reflection #6:  Provide a summary of your novel, thus far.

Reflections #7: make a text-to-self comparison from the   

novel you are reading (5-7 sentences). 

Reflection #8:  Choose the most significant passage you have read in the story that has stayed with you.  Explain its significance. 

Reflection #9:  What do you think inspired the author to write this book? 

Reflection #10:  In grade book already – SSR in library

Reflection #11:  Draw a scene that stands out in your  mind from the novel and label all the important objects/people. 

Reflection #12:  

1. What is the title of the book you are currently reading?  
   1. Who is the author?  
   1. How long have you been reading it?  
   1. What is your impression of it so far?  

1. Bell work:   In your notebook write down the words for tomorrow’s quiz and define all of them.  
2. Bell Work #2:  What does the following mean to you?  “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” 
3. Bell Work #3:  Analyze the following saying and explain how it could apply to you or anyone else:

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

Watch your habits, they become your character.

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

• Bell Work # 4- What do you need to survive?  What would you do if you were alone without the help and supervision of any adults?

• Bell Work #5- Choose one of the following quotes and discuss what it means to you?

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” By Epictetus

“It’s an universal law—intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education.  An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility” – Solzhenitsyn

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge” – Jung

Completed discussing “Dirk, the Protector”.

Vocabulary wk.sheet for the story was submitted.

H.W. Complete the graphic organizer for “Dirk, the Protector” due at the beginning of the hour tomorrow

Retake for SAT 5 is during lunch tomorrow (Wednesday)