1. 7th Grade Week 27 Agenda & Obj. 3/4/13-3/8/13
Monday: Novel Study
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature and other texts including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity
Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain specific words and phrases; etc.
Tuesday & Wednesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
• Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
Thursday: Quiz & Wrap up
Friday: Conferences! No Class

2. Daily Writing: If I were… 3/4/13
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
If I were the teacher, I would...
If I were older, I would…
If I were rich, I would…

3. Reading & study guide questions Part 9 due Wednesday.
Monday: Novel Study
While I collect your poems & check your planner and vocab 9, draw pictures for vocab 9.
Planner:
Reading & study guide questions Part 9 due Wednesday.
Quiz THURSDAY on poetry and Part 9.
Reject/Accept nomination form due Wednesday, March 20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.

4. Only do side ONE! Do NOT do the other side!
Monday: Novel Study
Quick research-based fluency quiz. Please take this as seriously as you would take any quiz or test!
I’m going to collect them in 3 minutes and give them to administration.
Only do side ONE! Do NOT do the other side!

5. Play vocab charades/Pictionary with vocab 9.
Monday: Novel Study
Nominated books! Try and read as many as you can and fill out a reject/accept form for each one you read. Remember the key elements:
Writing style
Narrative voice
Character development
Dialogue
Plot
Organization
Accuracy
Depth
Readability
Research (if nonfiction or historical fiction)
Play vocab charades/Pictionary with vocab 9.
Go through study guide questions part 9 and popcorn read.

6. Daily Writing: Beauty 3/5/13
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” ~John Keats
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” ~David Hume

7. Tuesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
Planner:
Reading & study guide questions Part 9 due TOMORROW.
Quiz THURSDAY on poetry and Part 9.
Reject/Accept nomination form due Wednesday, March 20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.

8. It's A Mystery!
Drawing Conclusions

9. Drawing Conclusions: and When you draw a conclusion you use 2 things:
What you know in your head.
and
What you’ve read in the story.
A conclusion is the decision you come to when you put these two together.

10. For Example: I sleep in a crib. I drink from a bottle.
I cannot walk or talk.
Who am I?
I know babies sleep in cribs.
I know babies drink bottles.
I know babies can’t do these things yet.
Must be a baby!

11. Let's Try Again! rainboots! Put me on your feet.
I will keep you warm and dry.
Wear me when it rains.
I know you wear socks and shoes on your feet.
Both of these keep you warm, but only shoes keep you dry.
What do you wear, on your feet, when it rains?
rainboots!

12. What did you know in your head?
Your Turn!!!
You need me before you can mail a letter. Paste me on an envelope.
What am I?
You need a postman, an envelope, and a stamp to mail a letter!
Only one of these would be pasted onto an envelope!
What did you know in your head?

13. What did you know in your head?
And Again!!!
I am white. You need me every day. You drink me when you are thirsty. I can make a moustache.
What am I?
I know!!!
Lots of things are white!
You need a lot of things.
What is white and you drink?
AND, It makes a moustache!
What did you know in your head?

14. What did you know in your head?
You are AWESOME!
I look like a baby.
You can give me a name.
Children like to play with me.
What am I?
What looks like a baby?
I know!!!
Dolls? Pictures? Hmm…
Children play with dolls, not pictures.
You can name dolls, not pictures.
What did you know in your head?

15. What did you know in your head?
Last Time!!!
I grow on an ear. Cook me in hot oil. I will puff up and taste good. Some people microwave me.
What am I?
I know!!!
What grows on an ear? Ear wax? Earrings? Corn??
You wouldn’t cook or taste ear wax or earrings.
I know corn will puff up and it is sometimes cooked in the microwave.
What did you know in your head?

16. Tuesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
5 minutes: Page 533 – read the selection then answer the 4 questions on a scratch piece of paper. Go through them as a class.
Read introduction & poems from text book (Pg. 534):
“Life” by Naomi Long Madgett
“The Courage That My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Loo-Wit” by Wendy Rose.

17. Tuesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
10 minutes: Answer questions on “Thinking about the Selections” on a separate piece of paper. Leave a few lines for question 3. (c).
3 minutes: Turn to your table partner, share your responses for question 3, and finish question 3.
Finish worksheet.
Worksheet due tomorrow what you don’t get done in class. Also reading & study guide questions due tomorrow!

18. Daily Writing: Advice 3/6/13
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
If I could give one piece of advice to any person in history, that advice would be...
The best lesson anyone ever taught me was...

19. Wednesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
Show me your study guide questions!
While I check your work, review vocab & study guide questions. Quiz tomorrow!
Planner:
Poetry worksheet due tomorrow (what you don’t get done in class).
Quiz tomorrow on poetry and Part 9.
Reject/Accept nomination form due Wednesday, March 20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.

20. Wednesday: Poetry & Drawing Conclusions
Finish reading poems from text book (Pg. 534):
“Life” by Naomi Long Madgett
“The Courage That My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Loo-Wit” by Wendy Rose.
15 minutes: Answer questions on worksheet (1-9) on a separate piece of paper. (SKIP 3 C FOR NOW!) Due tomorrow what you don’t get done in class.
Put books away & move on to review… Quiz tomorrow!

21. Wednesday: Poetry In groups play jeopardy!
Group 1: 7A: Hafsa, Khadija, Wako, Yasin 7B: Idil, Abdullahi A., Zuhayb, Muna,
Group 2: 7A: Sundus, Caisha, Abdulahi, Abdisalam 7B: Sagal, Saynab, Omar, Jabir
Group 3: 7A: Samira, Miski, Asha, Ramadan, Yusuf 7B: Sahra, Siyad, Fatma, Najma,
Group 4: 7A: Habsa, Hana, Abdulqadir, Aisha, Hibaaq 7B: Latifa, Abdirahman, Abdullahi H., Habso, Marwan

22. Daily Writing: Equality 3/7/13
Choose one prompt to respond to and explain with detail:
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.” ~Albert Einstein
“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.” ~David Allan Coe

23. Thursday: Quiz/Wrap up
Hand in your journal! Also, hand in your poetry worksheet if you didn’t yesterday.
Quiz! NO TALKING! When you’re finished, raise your hand, and read silently, work on late work, or review for the BIG test (parts 7-end)next Thursday.
If we can transition well, let’s play a riddle game (AKA “drawing conclusions based on details ).
Planner:
Reject/Accept nomination form due Wednesday, March 20. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.
Finish Hoot/Tangerine (if you haven’t already) by Monday!
Parts 7-end test on Hoot/Tangerine next Thursday.

24. 1.What has thousands of ribs and 2 backbones?
Thursday: What Am I?
Number your scratch paper 1-6!
1.What has thousands of ribs and 2 backbones?
2.What comes at night without being fetched and is lost during the day without being stolen?
3.Sometimes I am light, sometimes I am dark, what am I?

25. Thursday: What Am I?
Number your scratch paper 1-5! 4.What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days? 5.Mr. Maxwell had 2 piles of leaves in his backyard, and 4 in the front yard. If you put them all together, how many piles does he have? 6.What do poor people have, rich people need and brave people fear?

26. Friday: No Class
No class! Conferences