7th Grade ELA Week at a Glance

 The week before the holiday break has arrived!  Students will spend this week finishing up their poetry projects, taking Mini Cold Assessment 2.2, and writing an on-demand essay/workshopping it. Any student that has been out will have an opportunity to make up work and/or take the NWEA. Friday will be a 60% day where students will make sure all assignments are complete. 

 NWEA will be administered on Monday and Tuesday of this week.  The rest of the week will be spent working on a poetry project. Students will have to study a poem and analyze at least 5 of his/her's poems. After doing this, they will consider how the author's life impacted his/her poem and write a response to this topic.  Mini-lessons on paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting will be taught as well. 

 Welcome back!! We have a 3-week sprint before Christmas break.  Poetry week has arrived! Students will learn about poetry form and structure, review figurative language, and have an introduction to sonnets.  Students will have a chance to review and practice narrative skills for RWITD. Informational skills will be practiced during flex time. 

 This is the final week before Thanksgiving break. Students will demonstrate what they have learned by taking Cold Assessment 2.1 and writing a literary analysis for a test grade. They will spend 3-4 days on this writing. 

 Literary Analysis writing is the focus of this week. Students will learn about the purpose and structure of this type of writing in addition to how to write introductions and conclusions.  Theme will be reviewed from last year and new concepts related to this topic will be introduced including its development over the course of a text.  They will use "The Golden Windows," "The Scholarship Jacket," and "Sleepy Hollow" to practice these skills.  Students will take a cold quiz on a poem on Monday. 

 Students will take a practice quiz with a writing component about poetry on Monday. Then, they will finish any lessons/work from last week. The rest of the week will be divided between writing lessons and comparing literary works to their multimedia formats (movie scripts).  Prompt dissection and selected the best evidence will be the writing lessons taught. In addition, students will continue to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and practice analyzing literary elements with it.  Finally, they will practice poetry skills in preparation for a cold quiz the following week. 

 2nd 9 Weeks is here! Lessons in class will shift from understanding narrative/ informational texts to analyzing literary/informational texts through writing in this 9 weeks.  Teachers will review analysis writing strategies for body paragraphs in addition to teaching skills associated with mood(diction/connotation) and perspective. Students will practice these skills with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" as they begin the short story. Some poetry terms will be reviewed while reading "The Raven" as well.   On Friday, students will take a practice cold quiz on poetry.