September-October+Agendas

Here are the September and October agendas:

08/25/2014



08/26/2014

Today we are finishing our discussion on expectations. In addition, students will read a letter from a previous seventh grader and write their own letter introducing who they are to their teacher.



08/27/2014

Today students will be receiving their school iPad. They will also setup their edmodo account and learn about digital citizenship. [|Click here for a tutorial to setup edmodo.]

[|Click here to review digital citizenship.]

Here is a review of our computer ettiquette:

08/28/2014

Today is all about expectations and reading! Today students will create what they expect from the perfect classroom, ways to make our classroom great, and finish any work they had issues with this week. In addition, we will have reading time. Students will vote on the book we are going to read over the next school year!



09/02/2014

Today we took a pretest to test our grammar, parts of speech, figurative language, and sentence skills. We used kahoot! We also began discussing our hero unit. Students brainstormed what made a hero to them.

09/03/2014-09/04/2014 Students continued to brainstorm who is a hero and what makes them a hero.We had our first class debate using socrative. Students read a series of statements and then defended their answer of agreeing or disagreeing with that statement as they debated their peers responses.

09/05/2014-09/09/2014 Students will begin reviewing their reading strategies. They will be given examples and then use them as they read during reading time.

Reading Strategies:

Slideshow with questions for each strategy and activity to illustrate each strategy.

09/10/2014 Students will begin to explore the structure of a sentence. They will start by identifying the parts, subject and predicate. Then, they will have time to work in groups to create, and break apart sentences. There will be different station exploring sentences. Some will be creation, identifying if it is a sentence, and others will be games.

09/11/2014 Today we will take a break from learning about sentence structure to honor the heroes of 9/11. This will also connect to our hero unit. As we discuss heroes, we will also learn about character traits. Finally, your homework will tie into the I will... hero quilt dedicated to those heroes of 9/11. This is an event that will take place across the nation today and this week.

9/12/2014

Today we will setup Google Drive for Comm Arts and other classes. Students will attempt their first shared document. *Note: Today students were told in a week they will have their first quiz on subjects and predicates.

09/15/2014

Today students will meet the librarian, choose a book to read for pleasure, and they will explore the book fair!

09/16/2014   Students will continue to explore simple sentence by dividing the sentence between subject and predicate, identifying if it is or is not a sentence in a whiteboard game, and viewing a Mr. Morton School House Rock video.

09/17/2014 Today students will begin looking at fact and opinion. They will sort statements as truth or belief. Then, we will define fact and opinion together. After, we will read "Man in the Water" and use our reading strategies to understand the text. While we are reading, we will also look for facts and opinions.

The text "Man in the Water": POSTED ON EDMODO

09/18/2014 We will take a break from reading to practice our subjects and predicates before our quiz. We will be using kahoot!

09/19/2014 We will take our first quiz on subjects and predicates.

09/22/2014 Students completed their reading of "Man in the Water" in class, and they identified facts and opinions throughout the text.

09/23/2014 Students will complete their discussion about facts and opinions from Man in the Water, and they will complete a type to writing to show their understanding of facts supporting opinions.

09/24/2014 Subject and Predicate Review! Students will review their formative, and they will have one final review using nearpod.

09/25/2014 Students will complete their Collins Word quiz. This is just a review from sixth grade, so there is no need to prepare.

After the quiz: • 1. Highlight the misspelled words on your paper and on your list. • 2.Use them in a sentence correctly on your paper. • 3. This is due TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2014. •   • -Study tonight! Your summative quiz is tomorrow.

09/26/2014 Summative Sentence Quiz.

09/29/2014 Students will continue looking at fact and opinion. They will also begin to explore claim and supporting details.



09/30/2014 Students will begin reading Jesse Owens, and they will continue learning about claim and supporting details.

10/01/2014 Students will receive their first summative back, they will review it, and students will finish reading and evaluating Jesse Owens.

10/02/2014 Students will complete a practice on sorting fact and opinion. They will also work in groups to state an opinion about Jesse Owens and back it up with facts.

10/03/2014 Fact and opinion formative quiz Students will finish their discussion on Jesse Owens, and they will complete a challenge to use facts from the text to support a given claim. This will all be completed on Google Docs. Reading Time

10/06/2014  Students will finish their discussion on Jesse Owens, and they will complete a challenge to use facts from the text to support a given claim.

10/07/2014   Students will receive their fact and opinion formative back, review, and reflect on it. In addition, students will learn more about how to appropriately write a paragraph, explaining their evidence, and how to support a claim. Students will finish their discussion on Jesse Owens, and they will complete a challenge to use facts from the text to support a given claim.

10/08/2014   Students will use Kahoot to review fact and opinion.

10/09/2014   Students will begin reading articles to practice their understanding of claim and evidence. The first article is about Ebola and what officials are doing to prevent it from spreading.

10/10/2014   Students will continue analyzing articles by find evidence to support the claim they are given about the article. Students will take their fact and opinion summative. Reading Time!

10/13/2014 No School!

10/14/2014 2hr Delay Students practiced debating with a few strategies provided. This allowed them to see claim and evidence practiced verbally rather than just written. In addition, it will help prepare students for our upcoming team government election.

10/15/2014 Students will continue their work with claim and evidence as they read a pro/con article from newsela about school lunches. They will identify the author's purpose/claim, the facts that supported it, and then make their own claim about the topic based on the text. Pro/Con Article



10/16/2014 Students will continue to review claim and evidence, incomplete vs. complete sentences, and previous practice in preparation for their quiz tomorrow.

10/17/2014 Claim and Evidence Quiz Complete vs. Incomplete Sentence Quiz Reading Time

10/20/2014 Students will continue reviewing claim and facts through articles from newsela. First, students will pre-read the text and look for new or interesting words. We will discuss/define these words, and we will also discuss any initial reactions students have about the article. Students will re-read the article and choose a claim to defend based on their opinion. The complete activity is posted on edmodo.

10/21/2014 Students will continue their work from yesterday. They will take the claim they have chosen and defend it with facts from the text that support the claim. Before they go back into the text, we will try claim with facts as a class using the 1990's hero: Ben Carson. As a class we will make a claim, find facts, and explain. Finally, we will also continue to review sentence structure. If time provides, students will be able to debate their claims.

10/22/2014 Students will review their formative in preparation for their summative. They will have different work to complete depending on their score. In addition, we will finish the debate from the prior day.

10/23/2014 Students will complete their claim quiz. In addition, we will have one final review of sentences using Kahoot.

10/24/2014 Sentence Quiz Reading Time

10/27/2014 Commas vs. Apostrophes

10/28/2014 Claim Quiz Commas vs. Apostrophes

10/29/2014 Finish reviewing commas, begin practice, and look at how to use it in writing. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Book

10/30/2014 Collins Words Pre-test and topic sentence introduction

10/31/2014 Review claim quiz and continue work on commas with kahoot! Reading Time!