Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Third Term Requirements

  Seventh Grade Third Term Targets 
   (First published January 2010)

Reminder:  I am usually available after school, unless I have a meeting.  If you feel you need to see me before school, please make an appointment.  In the morning I am often off running off copies, working in another classroom, or taking care of other needs. 

No late or revised work for third term will be accepted after 
Friday, March 12. 

-- Learn the third term prefixes and suffixes and how to spell the words associated with them.

-- Recognize theme in a story or book, and write about one or more themes, using support from the text.
    Write an introductory paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
     Revise and edit. (Especially use commonly confused words correctly, and create complete sentences.)

-- Write a persuasive essay based on a text read as a class.
    Write an introductory paragraph, body paragraphs (each focusing on one reason why your reader should      agree with you), and a concluding paragraph.
     Revise and edit.  (Especially use commonly confused words correctly, and create complete sentences.)

--  Read a novel of your choice on your own in one of these genres:  distopian or realistic.

-- Read a  nonfiction book of your choice on your own.

-- Be able to recognize and use the seventh grade external text features: headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of content:

External Text Features



-- Create an external text feature for your individual nonfiction book: a timeline, who's who, what's where (annotated list of locations), glossary, subject index or another feature you propose and the teacher approves.

-- Work cooperatively as a group to read and discuss a nonfiction book (Ice Story) in class and together create external text features for your book.

-- Begin to recognize the internal text structures: chronological, sequence, and description.