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
