Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet of paper. Open your computer and begin logging on. Log on to iLit. Match the number of each word with the letter of its definition. 1. Diameter 2.strategist 3. maternal 4. malfunction 5. indulgent doesn’t work B. someone who spoils someone C. motherly D. measurement from side to side of a circle E. someone who plans Once you are logged on, go to Assignments and work on Interactive Reader for ten minutes.

Agenda Time (min.’s) Unit: Digital Reality Essential Question: How do you know it’s for real? 10 Interactive Reader Vocabulary (occupied, perplexed) 15 Read Aloud Think Aloud The Virtual War (modelling predicting and looking at vocabulary in context) 5 Classroom Conversation Whole Group (Writing informative paragraphs) 35 Work Time (The Grade, Interactive Reader, Study Plan) Wrap-Up

Standards: 7.W.1.3.B Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. 7.W.1.3d Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. 7.SL.1.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. 7.L.3.4a Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Work Time: Students will be working independently on the following: Finishing “The Grade” assessment (in Assignments). Work on iPractice 1.1: Ask Questions (in Assignments) and iPractice 1.2 What Happens Next? 1.3 Visualize; 1.4 Writing an Informative Paragraph 3) Work on Grammar Study Plan. 4) Work on Extra Practice: Consonant Digraphs. (in Assignments). 5) Work on the Interactive Reader assignment sent to them (in Assignments). 6) Go to the Library. Click My Level. Choose a book to begin reading.

Work Time: Students will be working in small groups with Mr. Kern: -Silent Reading Comprehension -Reviewing Interactive Reader Responses/ Discuss Short Responses

Wrap-Up: Was your prediction correct about Sharla and how she looks? What are the meanings of the following words: diameter, strategist, arc, maternal, malfunction and indulgent? Continue working on your assignments as homework.