Week 1

Monday - 10/3
F - A - B - C - D - E

• Grammar Safari - Week 6: Continue learning about pronouns.
• Complete Pronouns WS - 2 [PDF]
• Finish writing your Autobiographical Narrative. Due tomorrow.
  HW: Finish Autobiographical Narrative and Pronouns WS 2.

Tuesday - 10/4
E - F - A - B - C - D

• Grammar Safari
• Correct and turn in Pronouns WS - 2.
• Review and revise Autobiographical Narratives.
  HW: Pronouns WS - 3 [PDF]

Wednesday - 10/5
D - E - F - A - B - C

• Grammar Safari
• Correct Pronouns WS - 3. Turn in
• Notebook Entry #16 - Adding descriptive details to the setting of your story. If you were absent, find three pictures of places either in a book, magazine, or online. Or you can write about a place that you visit, such as a park, library, grocery store, etc. Write a detailed description of each place, using specific nouns and adjectives in your writing. Time yourself- write for five minutes about each place.
  HW: Choose one place in your autobiographical narrative where you could add descriptive details about the setting. Write a detailed descriptive paragraph on a separate sheet of binder paper. Due tomorrow: plot outline, autobiographical narrative, and descriptive paragraph.

Thursday - 10/6
C - D - E - F - A - B

• Grammar Safari - turn in.
• Share Autobiographical Narratives. Turn in.
• Read "Characterization" in Lit. Book, p. 106 - 107.
• Notebook Entry #17 - Character Traits Sort Activity - Make a two column chart. Label the left side Positive Character Traits. Label the right side Negative Character Traits. Sort your character trait words into two piles and write them on your paper. (For absent students, make a list of twenty words that would describe someone's personality; for example: thoughful, friendly, respectful, etc.)
  HW: Unit 3 Word Study and Practice Sheets [PDF] due tomorrow. Study for Unit 3 test. Use the Unit 3 Quizlet to help you review. Tomorrow is the last day to turn in late, absent, or redo work for 1st quarter.

Friday - 10/7 - TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN LATE, ABSENT, OR REDO WORK for FIRST QUARTER.
C - D - E - F - A - B

• Unit 3 Word Study.
  • Turn in Word Study and Practice Sheet [PDF].
  • Take Unit 3 test.
• Notebook Entry #18 - Brainstorming. 1) Make a list of 10 - 15 musical instruments. 2) Make a list of 10 - 15 ice cream flavors. 3) Make a list of 10 - 15 types of cereal.

Week 2

Monday - 10/10
B - C - D - E - F - A

• Grammar Safari - Week 7: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
• Review for tomorrow's First Quarter Benchmark Test.
• Characters You Should Know WS [PDF]. Due Wednesday.
• Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 1 [PDF]. Due Wednesday.

  HW: Use the Grammar Goodies to review for tomorrow's 1st Quarter Benchmark Test. Topics covered: Identification of pronouns, nouns, and adjectives in a sentence; types of sentences; correct capitalization, and reading comprehension.

Tuesday - 10/11
A - B - C - D - E - F

• Seventh Grade Benchmark Test - First Quarter
  HW: Signed, First Quarter Independent Reading Logs are due tomorrow. Finish Characters You Should Know WS [PDF] and Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 1 [PDF], if you haven't already.

Wednesday - 10/12
F - A - B - C - D - E

• Grammar Safari
• Turn in signed First Quarter Independent Reading Logs.
• Correct Characters You Should Know WS. Turn in.
• Review Methods of Characterization .
• Notebook Entry #19 - PART I: Invent-a-Character Assignment. Do this if you were absent: Find the picture of some anonymous person in a magazine (don't pick someone you recognize.) Use your imagination to make up information about your character. Answer the questions below. If a question has ** behind it, answer using complete sentences.
  • 1. What is your character's first and last name?
  • 2. Describe what you character looks like.**
  • 3. Desribe where you character lives.**
  • 4. Describe an action you might see him/her doing.**
  • 5. Write two direct quotations of what you character might actually say.**
  • 6. Write two sentences that tell us what the character is thinking or feeling.**
  • 7. Write two direct quotation that other characters might say about your character. **
  • 8. Write two additional sentences that tell us something about this character.**
  • 9 List three character trait words that describe your character.

  HW: Notebook Entry #19 - PART II: Character Description - Imagine that your invented character from PART I is being introduced in a story for the first time. What would be important for the reader to know about the character? Write a descriptive introduction of your character. Minimum 1/2 page. Reading Response Logs are due tomorrow.

Thursday - 10/13
E - F - A - B - C - D

• Grammar Safari
• Turn in Reading Response Logs for First Quarter.
• Correct Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 1. Turn in
• Notebook Entry #20 - Partner Dialogue. You are going to write a dialogue between the character you created on Tuesday and another character in class. Write the basic situation at the top of your paper: setting (time and place) and conflict (problem the characters are having) and character (character names.) If you were absent, you need to write a dialogue/script between two characters. One of the characters will be the one you created from the picture in NB #32. The other character can be anyone you want. Decide on a basic situation for your scene. At the top of your paper write: the characters' first and last names, a setting where the conversation will take place, and a problem the two characters will discuss. Then create a script of the two characters talking back and forth. Write a minimum of five lines for each character.
  HW: Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 2 [PDF] . Notebook Entries #11 - 20 are due tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day to turn in reading logs for first quarter.

Friday - 10/14 - LAST DAY OF FIRST QUARTER
E - F - A - B - C - D

• Grammar Safari - Turn in.
• Correct Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 2. Turn in.
• Turn in Notebook Entries #11 - 20.
• Do Inferring Character Traits WS [PDF]. Due next Tuesday.

Week 3

Monday - 10/17
D - E - F - A - B - C

• Grammar Safari - Week 8
• Notebook Entry #21 - Reflect on the first quarter of school. What are you doing well? What do you need to work on? What are three goals you could set for yourself that would help you improve next quarter?
• Read "The Party" [PDF]. Answer the story questions on a separate sheet of paper using complete sentences.
  HW: Finish Inferring Character Traits WS [PDF] from last Friday, if necessary.

Tuesday - 10/18 - MINIMUM DAY - STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY
C - D - E - F - A - B

• Grammar Safari
• Correct and turn in Character Traits WS.
• Review and turn in "The Party" story responses.
  HW: On a piece of binder paper, create a plot outline for your Autobiographical Narrative 2 [PDF]. You need to include a basic situation (characters, setting, conflict), a series of events, climax, and resolution. Make sure that you can clearly state why this event was meaningful to you.

Wednesday - 10/19
B - C - D - E - F - A

• Grammar Safari
• Start writing your Autobiographical Narrative [PDF]. You must use the following writing guidelines:
  • Skip lines.
  • Use blue or black ink.
  • Write on one side of the paper only.
  • Leave one inch margins.
  • NO TYPING!

  HW: Do Pronoun-Antecedent WS - 3 [PDF].

Thursday - 10/20
A - B - C - D - E - F

• Grammar Safari - turn in
• Correct Pronoun-Antecendent WS - 3.
• Continue writing your Autobiographical Narrative. Due Monday.
  HW: Grammar Book - Exercise Review E, p. 169 - 170. Write out the sentences correctly. Underline the corrected pronouns. Only 1 of the sentences is correct.

Friday - 10/21
A - B - C - D - E - F

• Correct Grammar Book assignment. Turn in.
• Unit 4 Word Study.
  • Pretest - Test Date - 10/21
  • Practice Sheet [PDF] due - 10/21
• Practice Your Words with the Unit 4 Quizlet  

Week 4

Monday - 10/24
F - A - B - C - D - E

• Grammar Safari - Week 9: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Review
• Review and revise Autobiographical Narrative #2.
• Notebook Entry #22 - Describing Characters. If you're absent, find three pictures of people from a book, magazine, or the internet and write a physical description of each character. You should write for four minutes on each one. Use concrete descriptive details, specific nouns, and adjectives in your description. Try to work in some figurative language, too, but don't overdo it.
  HW: On a separate sheet of binder paper, write a paragraph giving a detailed description of a character from your story.

Tuesday - 10/25
E - F - A - B - C - D

• Grammar Safari
• Turn in Autobiographical Narrative - outline, draft, and character description.
• Lit Book - Read "Duffy's Jacket," page 6.
• Notebook Entry #23 - Respond to the story using complete sentences.
  • Predictions:
    • 1 & 2 - Look over the story and make two predictions about the story before you start reading. Be sure to support your predictions with evidence from the text.
    • 3, 4 & 5 - As you read the story, stop at the three in-text prediction questions and write a response. Write your responses using complete sentences.
• Notebook Entry #24- Respond to the story using complete sentences (except for #10.).
  • Inferences:
    • 6 & 7 - After finishing the story, answer Interpretations questions 2 & 3 on page 13.
    • 8 - Evaluate your predictions. How accurate were they?
    • 9 - Make a connection - text to text, text to world, or text to self.
    • 10 - List three character trait words that describe Duffy and three character traits that describe Andrew, the narrator.

  HW: Pronoun-Antecedent Review WS [PDF]

Wednesday - 10/26
D - E - F - A - B - C

• Grammar Safari
• Correct homework. KEEP.
• Review for tomorrow's test.
• Complete a story map [PDF] for "Duffy's Jacket." You should have 5 - 6 events.
  HW: Finish the story map, if necessary. Use the Grammar Goodies online to reveiw for tomorrow's test on Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.

 Thursday - 10/27
C - D - E - F - A - B

• Grammar Safari - Turn in.
• Review "Duffy's Jacket" story map. KEEP.
• Learn about how to write a story summary.
• On a piece of binder paper, write a story summary of "Duffy's Jacket." Use the writing guidelines. Due next Wednesday.
• Turn in Pronoun-Antecedent Review WS from yesterday.
• Test on Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement.
  HW: Unit 4 Word Study and Practice Sheet [PDF] due tomorrow. Study for tomorrow's test on Unit 4. Practice Your Words with the Unit 4 Quizlet.

Friday - 10/28
C - D - E - F - A - B

•  Unit 4 Word Study.
  • Turn in Word Study and Practice Sheet.
  • Take Unit 4 test.
• Continue working on "Duffy's Jacket" story summary. Due next Wednesday.

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