LESSON PLANS AUG. 31 – SEPT. 4, 2015

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LESSON PLANS AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 4

TEKS/STATE STANDARDS: 7.03, 7.06, 7.08, 7.14, 7.16, 7.19, 7.20, 7.21

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 31

WRITING:

Homework – Capitalization practice

Bell Work – Figuratively Speaking (simile, metaphor, personification)

Capitalization – Notice rules for family relationships (additional   

review)

Sensory Images – listening/visualization activity

Academic Vocabulary – Figurative Language – create foldable

READING:  

Homework – Read at least 10 pages in library book

Bell Work – Sustained silent reading – 5 minutes

Collaboration – Book Talk – type of fiction; setting; major character(s);

conflict

Short Story – “Seventh Grade”

Pre-reading:  author Gary Soto; Fresno CA; migrant workers;

             realistic fiction; vocabulary; predicting

 

TUESDAY, SEPT. 1

WRITING:  

Homework – Sentence Combining

Bell Work – Check homework

Capitalization review and quiz

Short Writes – “Show, Don’t Tell”

Sentence Fluency – Notice strategy – analyze sentence parts for

complete and simple subjects/predicates (multi-sensory

grammar)

READING:

Homework – Read at least 10 pages in library book

Bell Work –  Sustained silent reading – 5 minutes

Read and analyze – “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto (literature book)

Reading response questions and vocabulary in context

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2

WRITING:

Homework – Sentence Combining

Bell Work – Notice Strategy – Adding Details

Short Writes – “Show, Don’t Tell”

Collaboration – Sentence Variety (simple sentences with compound

parts)

Compare examples of descriptive writing

READING:  

Homework – Read at least 10 pages in library book

Bell Work – Sustained silent reading – 5 minutes

Quote Snapshots (figurative language/sensory images – “Seventh

Grade”

Academic Vocabulary foldable – Fiction:  theme, imagery, narrator,

point of view

 

THURSDAY, SEPT. 3

WRITING:

Homework – Sentence Combining

Bell Work – Notice Strategy – precise, vivid adjectives

Sparkling Sentences – publish examples from “Show, Don’t Tell”

Coordinating Conjunctions FANBOYS

Notice Strategy – compound sentences/subjects and predicates

Collaboration – Sentence Variety (sentences which should be

combined)

Reading:  

Homework – Read at least 10 pages in library book

Bell Work – Read “Storytelling”

Academic Vocabulary – create foldable – Fiction: Folktales

Pre-Reading – folktale – “The Wise Old Woman” – vocabulary; visuals;

narrator/point of view

 

FRIDAY, SEPT. 4

Writing:

Bell Work – Check homework for completion and correctness

Review and quiz – simple and compound sentences

Notice Strategy – organizational strategies for descriptive writing

Reading:

Homework – Read at least 10 pages in library book

Bell Work – Sustained silent reading

Evaluation of reading progress

Collaboration – analyzing narrator/point of view

 

 

             

 

 

 

 

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AUGUST 24 – 28 LESSON PLANS

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LESSON PLANS AUG. 24 – 28, 2015

TEKS: 7.1, 7.2, 7.6, 7.8, 7.14, 7.16, 7.17, 7.19-21

Monday:
Reading:

  1. Show “Dear Hard Work” video
  2. Discuss classroom procedures
  3. Making Connections Pitchforking activity (Bernabei)

Writing:

  1. Kid President “Pep Talk to Teachers and Students” video
  2. Take up supplies
  3. Show “Word Crimes” video (Youtube)
  4. Quick Writes (TALA)

 

Tuesday:
Reading:

  1. Plot diagram manipulative for pre-assessment of plot development academic vocabulary
  2. Assign roles and read “The Suffocated Seventh Grader” (handout)
  3. “It Says, I Say, and So” Inferencing activity for “The Suffocated Seventh Grader”

Writing:

  1. Quick Writes (TALA)
  2. Elaboration Strategy: Smiley Face Trick #1-The Magic Three (Ledbetter)
  3. Quick Write Extension – choose 1 quick write to expand into a paragraph using smiley face trick #1-The Magic Three

 

Wednesday:
Reading:

  1. Vocabulary for “The Suffocated Seventh Grader”
  2. Create plot diagram for “The Suffocated Seventh Grader”
  3. Complete “It Says, I Say, and So”” Inferencing activity for “The Suffocated Seventh Grader”

Writing:

  1. List of Threes Prewriting Strategy (TALA p.32)
  2. Capitalization Notice Strategy (Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson)

 

Thursday:  
Reading:

  1. Read and analyze “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
  2. Review Fiction Academic Vocabulary

Writing:

  1. Elaboration Strategy: Smiley Face Trick #2-Figurative Language
  2. Timeline – Narrow the Focus on one event from List of Threes (TALA)

 

Friday:
Reading:

  1. Vocabulary for “Seventh Grade”
  2. Create plot diagram foldable for “Seventh Grade”

Writing:

  1. Elaboration Strategy: Smiley Face Trick #3-Specific Details for Effect
  2. Narrative Prewriting – Developing the Central Idea
  3. Quick Write Extension – choose 1 quick write to expand into a paragraph using Smiley Face Tricks #2 and #3

 

 

 

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