Week of September 24-28

Good morning friends.  Our plans have been sent askew by my being sick. It seems that I have a sinus infection and am spending Wednesday at the doctor's office and getting some much needed rest.  Thanks for all of your continued support :)

Mrs. Cindy Matejka

Monday, September 25, 2012

1. Do Now:  Write about something you lost or gave away that can never be replaced.

2. Read article on Spontaneous Combustion in pairs.

3. Students are to text code the article in pairs.

4. What is the tone of the article?

5. Students are to find occurrences of the following words:

1. Flame
2. Fire
3. Human
4. Phenomenon
5. Combustion
6. SHC

6. Students are to complete all assignments in the story (at the end) in their notebooks.

Tuesday, September 26, 2012

    1.  Do Now-Daily Oral Language

2. Review Subject / Predicate Worksheet

3. Introduce The Adverb-Brain Pop

4. Notes on The Adverb-PowerPoint presentation

5. Activities on the Adverb as a class.

6. If time, pictures with words for vocabulary to review for test.

Wednesday, September 24, 2012

1.       Do Now-If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

2.       Go over making inferences PowerPoint-fact or opinion

3.      Have students do inferences worksheets in pairs, go over.

 Thursday, September 27, 2012

     1.  Do Now-What 5 websites do you visit often and why?

 

2. Talk about tone and mood .

3. Give a list of tone/mood key words to students and go over.

4. Go over list.

5. Have students write 5 keywords about their mood/tone for the day.

6. Put up picture of man in picture to explain tone/mood

7. Watch movie trailer for Avengers.  Have students write 5 mood/tone phrases for trailer.

8. Watch the movie trailer for Titanic.  Have students write 5 mood/tone phrases for trailer.

Friday, September 28, 2012

1.       Do Now-Daily Oral Language

2.       Vocabulary Test

3.      Library?

4.      Reading time for reading workshop.

Week of September 17-21

I will try to post the week's activities in our Language Arts 7 classes every Wednesday to keep you up to date on what we are doing.  I will say for parents, when it comes to homework, it is usually classwork that has not been completed for the day.

Thanks for your continued support.


Monday, September 17
1. Homework: Collect Creative Writing Papers
2. Do Now:  Daily Oral Language Activity
3.  Finish going over Hindenburg Story.
4.  Watched a You Tube Video on Mythbusters and the Hindenburg.
5.  Vocabulary Jeopardy
Homework:  Study for Quiz

Tuesday, September 18
1.  Do Now: Write about a narrow escape from trouble.
2.  Vocabulary Review/study time.
3.  Vocabulary Quiz
4.  Students are to finish vocabulary short response questions.
Homework: Finish Vocabulary Short Responses

Wednesday, September 19
1.  Do Now:  Daily Oral Language Activity
2.  Begin learning how to diagram sentences: simple subjects and predicates
3.  Take notes on subjects and predicates
4.  Worksheet on pronoun review (post-test)
Homework: None

Thursday, September 20
Writing Day-Disappointment is an emotion that most people have experienced at one time or another.  Write a story that deals with disappointment.  The situation can be real or imaginary.  (3 paragraphs minimum)

Friday, September 21
1.  Do Now-Daily Oral Language Activity
2.  PowerPoint presentation on making inferences-fact or opinion.
3.  Worksheets as pairs on making inferences.
4. If time, story that correlates to Hindenburg disaster on spontaneous combustion.