(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.
