Announcements and Reminders:
 If you have not taken any of the pretests we have done so far for this class, you may arrange to come in before or after school, or complete them during Cave Time. Intervention Cave Times begin on Wednesday, September 5! See the post linked here: About Cave TimeOn Friday of this week, all seventh graders will attend an assembly during Cave Time, so don't plan on doing make-up work with a teacher during Cave Time on Friday.
If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket.
Don't forget to bring your composition book (and other needed supplies). Link to more information: Welcome to English 7 2018-2019: Needed Supplies and More
Pick up your composition book!
If you brought your composition book, make sure you have your name and period on the front, then add your folder/computer number to the front. You will use it today, then leave it in your hanging folder in either the black crate or the drawer for your class. If you haven't, number the pages, front and back.
Remember to choose and start reading your
Book-of-the-Month!
(a novel -- any genre)
Sign up for your book, so it can be approved by the teacher.
To check out books from the classroom, see Ms. Dorsey.
 Receive your order packets in A2 Tuesday, September 4.
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Targets for Today:
I can generate ideas for my own narrative writing. I can recognize the way sentences are put together. I can use elements of literature as I read and as I write. |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Writing Prompt: in your composition book Label it "Ideas for Narrative Writing." Today we are looking for a list -- a list of topics (subjects) for interesting stories you could write -- either nonfiction (probably autobiographical) or fictional. List as many as you can. You are NOT writing a story now. You are just coming up with ideas for stories you could write: brainstorming.
2. Conventions: in your composition book
copy this sentence into your composition book
Label this CSI #2 and add today's date, September 4 or 5, 2018.
Copy this sentence:
Great rosebushes of red bloomed on Victor's cheeks. from "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
Write down three or more things you notice about the sentence (English class things such as punctuation, spelling, parts of speech, sentence type, etc. The sentences are correct – no errors in it, I hope.)
3. Elements of Literature
Pretest Do not write on the test -- only on the bubble sheet. You will need to write your name and bubble in your student number on the bubble sheet. There are 16 questions. When you finish, quietly read, or finish writing in your composition book. 4. Elements of Literature -- focus on plot map Where did we get to in your class on the videos and stories? Keep your charts in your composition book for now. "Lifted"?
"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
Dug's Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNL945i6qA8 Dug Priscilla and the Wimps, if time B5 started filling out the chart for "Seventh Grade." have exposition and climax B6 Finished Lifted, started "Seventh Grade"? B8 Finished Lifted, watched Dug -- haven't done "Seventh Grade" yet. |
If You Were Absent:
See above.
Write to the prompt and complete the CSI assignment on a separate sheet of paper you can tape into your composition book, or come into class during cave time or before or after school to write them into your composition book.
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Vocabulary:
protagonist: the main character in a story (usually the good guy) antagonist: the enemy of the protagonist (usually the bad guy or guys or things) Conflict: The problem -- the struggle between the protagonist and the antagonist Types of Conflict: Internal: protagonist vs. himself External: protagonist vs. another character or characters protagonist vs. nature protagonist vs. the supernatural (the unknown) protagonist vs. society |
Help and Enrichment
See the tab above for Required Reading to learn about your book-of-the-month assignment. |
