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LESSON PLANS – MAY 16 – 20, 2016; May 23 – 27

SCHOOL’S WINDING DOWN. PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILD

TO WORK EXTRA HARD THESE LAST FEW DAYS AND ON THE FINAL EXAM.

MONDAY, MAY 16

HOMEWORK – study parts of speech (quiz – Thursday)

Review nouns, pronouns, and adjectives from Friday’s lesson

Guided practice – verbs and verb phrases

TUESDAY, MAY 17

HOMEWORK – study parts of speech definitions; practice labeling words in sentences

Independent practice – nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs

Review adverbs

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

HOMEWORK – study parts of speech definitions; practice labeling words in sentences

Review prepositions; distinguish between adverbs and prepositions

THURSDAY, MAY 19

Quiz – parts of speech definitions

Independent practice – nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions

FRIDAY, MAY 20 (band to Six Flags)

Review conjunctions and interjections

MONDAY, MAY 23

Begin review for final exam

TUESDAY, MAY 24

Continue review for final exam

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25

Study for final exam

THURSDAY, MAY 26, FRIDAY, MAY 27 (EARLY RELEASE)

EXAMS

LESSON PLANS APRIL 26 – 29

READING

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.04, 7.05, 7.06, 7.07, 7.08, 7.09, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13

TUESDAY, APRIL 26

Homework – Study persuasive vocabulary (Quiz – Thursday)

Discuss questions missed the most on non-fiction practice

Discuss persuasive vocabulary

Mini-Lesson – persuasive text and terms (focus on bias, exaggeration, categorical claim, stereotyping,

explicit and implicit messages

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27

Homework – Study persuasive vocabulary (Quiz – Thursday)

Test – STAAR Reading Part I

“Should School Start Later” (article in Scope Magazine) – identify

facts for both sides of the debate

THURSDAY, APRIL 28

Quiz – persuasive vocabulary

Test – STAAR Reading Part II

“Should School Start Later (article in Scope Magazine) – identify

examples of exaggeration, categorical claims, and

stereotyping

FRIDAY, APRIL 29

Enjoy reading drama “When Girls Ruled Baseball”

LESSON PLANS APRIL 18 – 22

READING

TEKS/STATE STANDARDS: 7.01, 7.02, 7.07, 7.08, 7.09, 7.10, 7.11

MONDAY, APRIL 18

HOMEWORK

Study for Non-fiction Vocabulary Quiz (Wednesday)

***Quiz will only cover the words your child checked.

Review Non-fiction Vocabulary

Pre-read article from Scholastic Scope Magazine

(text features)

Read informational article

Finish any uncompleted work from Friday

TUESDAY, APRIL 19

HOMEWORK

Study for Non-fiction Vocabulary Quiz (Wednesday)

CLASS:  Study vocabulary on Quizlet

Activity – “Putting It All Together”

Mini-lessons: author’s purpose; author’s perspective, author’s tone

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

Non-fiction Vocabulary Quiz

Quiz – article in Scope Magazine

THURSDAY, APRIL 21

Students complete practice on various non-fiction skills

      again using Scope Magazine

FRIDAY, APRIL 22 (substitute)

Vocabulary – persuasive terms

Guided practice – persuasive passage

LESSON PLANS APRIL 11 – 15, 2016

READING – MRS. CLINE

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.01, 7.02. 7.03, 7.07, 7.09, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13

MONDAY, APRIL 11

Correct quizzes from last Thursday/Friday-poetry

Introduction to non-fiction; types

videos – non-fiction text structures

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

Homework – non-fiction reading passage and ques.

Power Point Presentation – text structures

Guided practice – text structures

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

Quiz – text structures

Power Point Presentation – text features

Guided practice – pre-reading (text features)

Thursday, April 14

Guided Practice – analyze, infer, draw conclusions, synthesize , make generalizations to comprehend non-fiction text 

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

Independent STAAR practice – non-fiction (informational)

LESSON PLANS APRIL 4 – 8

7TH GRADE READING

***SEVERAL GRADES WILL BE TAKEN THIS WEEK. HELP YOUR

CHILD STUDY SO HE/SHE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.02, 7.03, 7.04, 7.08, 7.09

MONDAY, APRIL 4

HOMEWORK – STUDY POETRY VOCABULARY (QUIZ THURSDAY)

Probe – Poetry Elements

Recognize elements in poetry and analyze poetry (literature textbook)

TUESDAY, APRIL 5

HOMEWORK – STUDY POETRY VOCABULARY (QUIZ THURSDAY)

Bell Work: Poetry Warm-up l

Poetry Elements – practice on Quizlet or study paper copy

Recognize elements in poetry/analyze poetry (literature textbook)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

HOMEWORK – STUDY POETRY VOCABULARY (QUIZ THURSDAY)

Daily assessment of Reading: Poetry (classwork)

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

Quiz – Poetry Terms (vocabulary)

Begin test – Poetry Analysis

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Finish test – Poetry Analysis

Create a poem

PLEASE READ THIS LETTER FROM MRS. CLINE

Dear Parents,

I want to take this time to thank all of you for your prayers, patience, and support over the past five months. On October 23, 2015, I suffered two bleeding brain aneurysms and was hospitalized thirty days (in Neuro ICU). This event could have easily been life-ending, but God and the expert neuro-surgeons had other plans. My recovery period, lasting another four months, involved physical, psychological, and occupational rehab. However, I was committed to doing everything required to get back into the classroom and teach your children. I missed them so much.

Although five months is a long time for students to be without a full-time teacher, be assured they were in capable hands. Mr. Hinkle took care of the situation promptly and professionally, asking two former middle school Language Arts teachers, Cindy Coones and Susan Terry, to substitute for me most of the days. I am forever grateful to these friends and excellent teachers for continuing my high expectations for student learning. Also, the Best Co-teacher in the World Award goes to Stacy Shellhorse. She, without hesitation, took on the overwhelming task of teaching writing and composition skills to all the students. Wow! What a dedicated teacher and friend!

Last Thursday, I was blessed to return to the classroom and begin planning with Mrs. Shellhorse for this most important time before STAAR Writing. We’re ready for a full week of grammar review and writing practice. Then on March 29, I am confident your child will do an exemplary job.

Again, I sincerely thank you for all the kindness you extended during this difficult time, and I look forward to a strong, successful end to the school year. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

May God bless you!

Debra Cline

LESSON PLANS FOR MARCH 21 – 24**

***THIS LESSON PLAN IS NORMALLY FOR READING; HOWEVER, THIS WEEK THE  LESSONS ARE FOR STAAR WRITING/REVISING AND EDITING

LESSON PLANS MARCH 21 – 24

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.14, 7.17, 7.19, 7.20, 7.21

MONDAY, MARCH 21

PRONOUN USAGE

Distinguish between subject and object pronouns and practice using them

correctly

REVISING AND EDITING

Review SCPPVSW acronym

S – sentence structure; C – capitalization; P – punctuation; P – pronouns

V – verb usage; S – spelling; W – wow (word choice, voc.)

TUESDAY, MARCH 22

Continue working on pronoun usage

CAPITALIZATION

Review most frequent capitalization errors

Review SCPPVSW

HOMEWORK – STAAR GRAMMAR REVIEW (DUE THURSDAY)

PUNCTUATION – APOSTROPHES FOR POSSESSIVES

Review the rules for forming singular and plural possessives

and distinguish plurals and possessives

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

LIBRARY

Begin assessing/correcting Benchmark Revising and Editing

Review SCPPVSW

HOMEWORK – FINISH STAAR GRAMMAR REVIEW

THURSDAY, MARCH 24

In-depth review of comma patterns/rules (especially compound sentences

and compound sentence parts)

Practice using commas correctly

FRIDAY, MARCH 25 – SCHOOL HOLIDAY – GOOD FRIDAY

LESSON PLANS OCT. 19 – 23

***FIRST WEEK OF NEW GRADING PERIOD

TEKS/STATE STANDARDS: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.7, 7.8, 7.10, 7.14, 7.16, 7.17, 7.19,7.20

HOMEWORK:

EVERY EVENING – Read library book at least 20 minutes

TUESDAY – Independent/Dependent Clauses

WEDNESDAY – Writing Complex Sentences

MONDAY, OCT. 19

Writing:

Bell work – Peg Writing – revising/editing personal narrative essay

Review – Comma Patterns 1, 2, 3; coordinating conjunctions;

simple sentence; compound sentence

Mini-lesson – meaningful transitions in narrative writing

Students revise/add transitions to narrative essays

Reading:

Bell work – library book check

Peg Writing – Students complete suggested lessons on an individual

basis

TUESDAY, OCT. 20

Writing:

Bell work – Peg Writing – revising/editing personal narrative essay

Notice: Subordinating conjunctions and complex sentences

Mini-lesson – variety of sentence beginning

Students revise sentence beginnings in narrative essays

Reading:

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Literary focus: narrative poetry

Read/analyze – “The Highwayman”

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21

Writing:

Bell work – last day for Peg Writing revising and editing

Distinguishing compound and complex sentences

Applying comma rules

Reading:

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Library

Figurative Language in “The Highwayman”

Read/analyze – “Annabel Lee”

THURSDAY, OCT. 22

Writing:

Bell work – Comma patterns

Independent practice – comma rules

Notice – paragraph development (TEXEXT)

Reading:

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Formative assessment – figurative language

Literary Focus: Non-fiction – read/respond to ques.

FRIDAY, OCT. 23

Writing:

Bell work – appositives

Notice – paragraph development (TEXEXT)

Guided practice on essential and non-essential clauses

Reading:

Bell work: sustained silent reading

Guided reading/non-fiction

LESSON PLANS OCT. 12 – 16 2015

***NOTE: REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR CHILD’S GRADES ON SKYWARD. THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF THE FIRST GRADING PERIOD.

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09, 7.14, 7.16, 7.19,

7.20, 7.21

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:

Monday – write 2 introductions for personal narrative

Tuesday – grammar packet (subjects and verbs)

Wednesday – transitions

MONDAY, OCT. 12

Writing:

Bell work – writing web (personal narrative)

Read examples of personal narrative introductions

Discuss various strategies

Write 2 different introductions for own personal narrative;

Finish for homework

Reading:

Bell work – sustained silent reading

STAAR Reading Practice

TUESDAY, OCT. 13

Writing:

Homework – grammar practice sheets

Bell work – Share introductions

Mini-lesson – transitions in personal narratives

Begin drafting body paragraphs of personal narrative

Reading:

Homework – read in library book

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Finish STAAR Reading Practice

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14

Writing:

Homework – practice – transitions

Finish drafting personal narrative

Reading:

Homework – read in library book

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Examples/conclusions for personal narratives

Draft the conclusion for personal narrative

THURSDAY, OCT. 15

Writing:

Bell work – active/passive voice

Revising personal narratives – paragraphing, sentence beginnings and lengths, verbs (action/linking; tense), specific details, sensory images

Reading:

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Type personal narratives into Peg Writing Program

FRIDAY, OCT. 16

Writing and Reading

Continue to revise/edit personal narratives in Peg Writing

LESSON PLANS OCT. 5 – 9, 2015

***NOTE: REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR CHILD’S GRADES ON SKYWARD. THIS IS THE 7TH WEEK OF THE FIRST NINE-WEEKS

GRADING PERIOD.

***NOTE: EARLY RELEASE FOR STUDENTS WEDNESDAY

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09, 7.14, 7.16, 7.19,

7.20, 7.21

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:

MON., TUES., WED., EVENINGS – STUDY FOR TEST – STORY ELEMENTS

***SEE PACKET AND STUDY SHEET; VOC. PRACTICE ALSO ONLINE

www.quizlet.com Search: Cline – Fiction Literary Terms

Tuesday – Practice on Commas (worksheet)

Wednesday – Practice on Commas (worksheet)

MONDAY, OCT. 5

Writing:

Bell work – Sentence Combining Using Series of Phrases

Analyze model of a personal narrative

Pre-Writing – personal narrative prompt

Reading:

Homework – Study for Test Thursday – Story Elements (fiction)

Bell work – sustained silent reading

Analyze short passages for short story elements

Quizlet – fiction literary terms

TUESDAY, OCT. 6

Writing:

Homework – comma practice

Bell work – Comma Patterns 1, 2, 3

Continue pre-writing for personal narrative – snapshot moment, graphic

organizer

Reading:

Homework – Study story elements (fiction terms) – test Thurs.

Bell work – quizlet

Independent practice – analyzing story elements in short literary texts

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7

Writing:

Homework – comma practice (worksheet)

Bell work – graphic organizer

Introduction strategies for personal narratives

Reading:

Homework – Study for Test Thurs. – story elements; fiction terms

Bell work – quizlet

Independent practice – fiction literary terms

THURSDAY, OCT. 1

Writing:

Bell work – quizlet – fiction literary terms

Write introduction for personal narrative

Begin drafting body paragraphs

Reading:

Bell work – study story elements

Test – Story Elements

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

Writing:

Bell work – revisit personal narrative

Finish drafting personal narrative

Reading:

Bell work – examples of concluding paragraphs for personal narratives

Add conclusion to personal narrative

Revisit personal narrative using a checklist for exemplary essays

LESSON PLANS SEPT. 28 – OCT. 2, 2015

***NOTE: PROGRESS REPORTS WERE GIVEN TO STUDENTS AND
AVAILABLE ON SKYWARD LAST WEEK.

***NOTE: STUDENTS MUST HAVE AT LEAST 1 FICTION LIBRARY BOOK READ BY WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30.

TEKS/STATE EXPECTATIONS: 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.06, 7.08, 7.09, 7.14, 7.16, 7.19,
7.20, 7.21

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK:
EVERY EVENING – READ LIBRARY BOOK (book test Thursday)
Monday – Study for “The Sentence” retest (doesn’t apply to every student)
Tuesday – Compound Sentences
Wednesday – Combining Sentences

MONDAY, SEPT. 28
Writing:
Bell work – compound subjects and predicates
Correct “The Sentence” test
Organize folders and interactive notebooks

Reading:
Homework – Read library book (book test Thursday)
Bell work – sustained silent reading
Read and analyze short story “Fish Cheeks” (autobiographical incident)

TUESDAY, SEPT. 29
Writing:
Homework – Compound sentences
Bell work – FANBOY conjunctions
“The Sentence” retest
Guided practice – creating compound sentences

Reading:
Homework – Read library book (book test Thursday)
Bell work – sustained silent reading
Annotate “Fish Cheeks” as model for personal narrative

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
Writing:
Homework – Combining Sentences
Bell work – ideas for writing
Pre-writing – personal narrative
(brainstorming, timeline, snapshot moment)

Reading:
Homework – Read library book (book test Thursday)
Bell work – sustained silent reading
Academic vocabulary – recall story elements

THURSDAY, OCT. 1
Writing:
Bell work – combining sentences
Create a web (organizer) for writing a personal narrative
Strategies for writing an introduction

Reading:
Bell work – sustained silent reading
Library book quiz
Comprehensive review of story elements

FRIDAY, OCT. 2
Writing:
Bell work – combining sentences
STAAR Revising – sentence structure
Draft 2 introductions for personal narrative; share

Reading:
Bell work – read/evaluate a model personal narrative
Continue draft of personal narrative