7th Grade Weekly Agenda
12/16 - 12/19 Class Schedule
Monday 12/16:
12/9 - 12/12 Class Schedule
Monday 12/9:
12/2 - 12/5 Class Schedule
Monday 12/2:
Finish Giver movie (if needed) and introduce poetry/figurative language elements
Poetry and Figurative Language Nearpod
Tuesday 12/3:
Finish Nearpod notes
Read "Casey at the Bat"
Wednesday 11/20:
Giver Escape room
Thursday 11/21:
Finish Casey at the Bat analysis
11/18 - 11/21 Class Schedule
Monday 11/18:
Tuesday 11/19:
Counselors Visit
Wednesday 11/20 :
Finish Giver Essay
Thursday 11/21:
Giver movie
11/11 - 11/14 Class Schedule
Monday 11/11:
Read chapters 17 & 18
Update notes if needed
Tuesday 11/12:
Read chapter 19
Journal: What is release and how is it the fatal flaw of the community?
Read chapter 20
CHAPTER 21 IS HOMEWORK
Wednesday 11/13
Finish chapter 22 - 23
Discuss & update notes
Thursday 11/14:
CTA #2
Finish updating notes
11/4 - 11/7 Class Schedule
Monday 11/4:
Introduce Giver RACE paragraph – is Jonas’s job as Receiver of Memory an honor or a punishment? - in Teams
Review the steps of how to write a RACE paragraph
Tuesday 11/5:
Complete the planning for your paragraph using the formatting steps on the instructions
Rough draft
Wednesday 11/6 :
Revise & edit using checklist
Finalize paragraph and submit
Thursday 11/7:
Finish paragraphs or read, depending on the time
10/28 - 10/31 Class Schedule
Monday 10/28:
Tuesday 10/29:
Chapters 15 & 16
Context Clue Practice #3 - GRADED
Wednesday 10/30:
No School – Conference
Thursday 10/31:
No School
- The Giver Chapter 5
- Update notes & start chapter 6 (if there’s time)
- Simple & Compound exit ticket (on paper)
- Chapter 6
- Context clue video & practice #1 - in Teams
- Simple & Compound exit ticket (on paper)
- Journal #4: If you could begin your career at the age of 12, would you? Explain your answer. What would you gain? What would you lose? – Think-Pair-Share
- Chapter 7
- Simple & Compound exit ticket (on paper)
- Chapter 8
- Journal #5: The Chief Elder describes how children have been taught how to fit in and “curb anything that sets them apart.” Make a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast your childhood with the childhood of the community members (i.e., Jonas & Lily)
- Update notes
- Simple & Compound exit ticket (on paper)
- Finish up with Giver chapter 1 & answer the journal prompt – Journal #2:
- Jonas and Lily refer to the 6’s from the other community as animals. The book states “Neither of them really knew what [animals] meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy…” What does the book suggest about animals in their society?
- The book says uses the word release multiple times in chapter one. Make a prediction: what do you think release means in the context of this society?
- Read chapter 2 and discuss
- Simple & Compound sentence review connected with The Giver
- Read chapter 3
- Update notes
- Simple & Compound sentence review
- Read chapter 4
- Journal #3: Pretend like you are Asher getting in trouble and having to apologize in front of the class. What would you get in trouble for in class that you would have to apologize for? (Talking, being tardy, not coming with materials, sleeping…). Create a little story, complete with dialogue, with you apologizing to the class. Your writing should sound like you are living in the world of The Giver.
- CTA #1
9/23 - 9/26 Class Schedule
Monday 9/23:
- Finish up with Examination Day
- Watch 2081
Tuesday 9/24:
- Journal: What type of Utopian society would you create? What problems would you try to eliminate? How would you try to create this society?
- Finish watching 2081
- Complete the 2081 assignment in Teams
Wednesday 9/25:
- Independent and Dependent Clause Review
- Set up Giver Notes
Thursday 9/26:
- Independent & Dependent clause practice
- Read chapter 1 & start 2 if there’s time
Monday 9/16:
- Finish the Arachne comic
Tuesday 9/17:
- Utopia & Dystopia notes
Wednesday 9/18:
- Finish notes
- Read “Examination Day”
Thursday 9/19:
- Complete the Examination Day assignment in Teams & watch the video version
- Check out The Giver
9/9 - 9/13 Class Schedule
Monday 9/9:
- Flight of Icarus Narrative Assignment
Tuesday 9/10:
- Sentence Types
- Start reading Arachne
Wednesday 9/11:
- Sentence Types Practice
- Continue reading Arachne
Thursday 9/12:
- Finish reading Arachne (if need be)
- Arachne comic strip
- No School – Labor Day
- Read “7th Grade” in class
- Literary Terms Questions on paper
- Grammar Bell Ringer – Capitalization Practice 1 (done in Notebooks)
- Finish 7th Grade Literary Terms Questions
- Grammar Bell Ringer – Capitalization Practice 2
- Define Myth
- Begin reading “Flight of Icarus”
- Finish reading “Flight of Icarus”
- Begin planning the narrative: Re-write the story from Daedalus’ perspective
- Flight of Icarus narrative (in Notebooks)
8/26 - 8/30 Class Schedule
Monday 8/26:
- Set up notebooks (Journal, Notes, & Random sections)
- Literary Terms notes: Link to PowerPoint
Tuesday 8/27:
- Finish literary terms notes
- Map out the parts of plot in a short story: https://sooperbooks.com/story/rumpelstiltskin-story/
Wednesday 8/28:
- Finish mapping out the parts of plot from the short story
- Start reading “7th Grade”
Thursday 8/29:
- Library Visit
8/19 – 8/23 Class Schedule
Monday 8/19:
- Name Tags
Tuesday 8/20:
- Finish name tags & share with classmates
- Expectations & routines
Wednesday 8/21:
Thursday 8/22:
- Practice Write – Write about a time that you last experienced something exciting or fun.
- Tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end
- Use your senses: What did you see, hear, taste, smell, touch?
- If there are people in the story – describe them in clear detail.
- Use strong and interesting adjectives.
- Indent your paragraphs
- Capitalize the start of sentences & names
- Put periods or ?! at the end of sentences
- Write in as much detail as possible!