7th Grade ELA Week at a Glance

February is here already. Can you believe it? This week students will demonstrate their knowledge of skills that we have been practicing the past few weeks. Cold Assessment 3.1 will be taken on Monday .  On Tuesday and Wednesday , students will take the Argument Analysis On-Demand Parts A and B . Part A will focus on analyzing an argument, and Part B will require students to use that analysis to write about it. The last two days will be lighter. They will read and watch a version of The Hitchhiker.   After reading and watching, the students will analyze each one and compare/contrast the two in stations.

Students will earn two test grades this week. The first will be Cold Assessment 2.2 on Monday, and the other will be an essay that requires students to be finished by Friday . They will begin the essay on Tuesday and receive guiding instruction that will allow them to write their essays throughout the week. In addition to these assignments, students will work on finishing The Duel  and all of the assignments associated with this text by Friday.

On Monday , students will take Cold Assessment 2.1 followed by an o n-demand writing for a test grade on Tuesday .  The rest of the week will be spent reading and analyzing poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. Using these texts, they will practice identifying tone and understanding its development. In addition to this, students will practice the SIFT method with his poetry so that they can write about a theme in his poem, "Annabel Lee."

We are over halfway finished with this 9 weeks. Time is flying by, and students are ready for their first cold assessment. It will be on Monday of this week. Students will have the entire block to finish their test. On Tuesday, students will write an on-demand. Then, the rest of the week will be spent revising and editing the on-demand for a grade. In addition to this, any assignments from The Call of the Wild will be finished. On Friday, a quiz on Chapters 5-7 will be given.

On Monday, students will practice recognizing theme, vocabulary skills, and argument in stations. Tuesday will be spent reviewing poetry and compare/contrast with two texts. Also, they will start stations that they will complete on Wednesday after the last cold quiz of the year,  Cold Quiz 4.4 . To end the week, students will write the last  on-demand for the year on Thursday. Enjoy your holiday on Friday!

We will continue practicing skills we have learned all year. This week will focus on informational texts and skills such as main idea, text structures, and finding evidence. Students will complete informational stations on Tuesday. Then, on Wednesday ,  Mini-Assessment 4.1 will be taken. The students will write an on-demand essay on Thursda y and complete stations on Friday to revise their essays. Cycle 12 vocab. quiz will be taken as well.

Students will take a quiz on Chapters 5-7 of The Call of the Wild on Monday. The rest of the week will be a review of standards RI and RL 7.1-4 and RI 7.8. They will read excerpts and short stories to practice skills and review topics such as recognizing theme, character interactions, vocabulary, argument and summarizing.  On Wednesday, they will take a cold quiz . To end the week, students will take Cycle 10 Vocab Quiz and write an on-demand essay .

The Call of the Wild will be completed this week. Students will begin the week with a quiz on Chapters 1-4. Then, they will read Chapters 5-7 and review skills such as conflict, summary, and gathering evidence with these chapters.  On Friday students will write an on-demand essay  for the book. In addition  to this book, students will begin reading O'Henry stories and learn about peripeteia. They will use these stories to practice other reading skills as well. On Thursday, students will take a cold quiz .

Golden autumn ways Falling leaves and sunny rays Perfect writing days – Sharon Jones Authors can express a variety of topics using poetry: love, hate, friendship, war...the list goes on and on. We will learn about the different forms and structures of poetry in addition to other poetry terms this week. We will be reading "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "Oranges." To end the week, we will have an on-demand writing test grade on Thursday and our last cold assessment of the 9 weeks on Friday .