Weekly Agenda

10/2 – 10/6 Class Schedule

Monday 10/2:

  • Chapter 8
  • Update notes
 

Tuesday 10/3:

  • CTA
  • Context Clue Practice 2 – in Teams

 

Wednesday 10/4:

  • Finish Context Clue Practice 2
  • Chapter 9
  • Discuss rules & how the community treats Jonas differently.
 

Thursday 10/5:

  • Chapter 10
  • Update Euphemisms chart
 

Friday 10/6:

  • Finish updating Euphemisms chart
  • Read chapter 11

9/25 – 9/29 Class Schedule

Monday 9/25:

  • Journal #2
  • Finish chapter 4
  • Update notes

 

Tuesday 9/26:

  • Kahoot review of chapters 1-4 of The Giver.
  • Context Clue video
  • Context Clue Practice 1 in Teams
 
Wednesday 9/27:
  • Read chapters 5 & 6
  • 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
 

Thursday 9/28:

  • Chapter 7
  • Journal: 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)

 

Friday 9/29:

  • No School - Teacher PD Day
 
9/18 – 9/22 Class Schedule

Monday 9/18:

  • Reflect on the Rogue Wave RACE paragraph grade
  • Finish watching 2081
  • 2081 Forms assignment - due in Teams by the end of class

 

Tuesday 9/19:

  • Parts of Speech practice
  • Set-up the notebooks for The Giver – Rules, Euphemisms, Characterization, Symbols
 
Wednesday 9/20:
  • Parts of Speech last practice
  • Read chapter 1 & 2 of The Giver
 

Thursday 9/21:

  • Parts of Speech Quiz
  • Journal #1: What can you infer about Jonas? What can you infer about his community? Use examples from the story.
 
Friday 9/22:
  • Chapter 1 & 2 Questions
  • Read chapter 3
  • Journal #2: 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? 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.

 

 

9/11 – 9/15 Class Schedule

Monday 9/11:

  • Dystopia Notes

 

Tuesday 9/12:

  • Parts of Speech Bell Ringer
  • Finish dystopia notes
  • If there’s time, start reading “Examination Day”

 

Wednesday 9/13:

  • The Giver book checkout
  • Read “Examination Day”

 

Thursday 9/14:

  • Parts of Speech Practice 2
  • Examination Day Assignment in Teams
  • Watch “Examination Day”

 

Friday 9/15:

  • Journal: What type of Utopian society would you create? What problems would you try to eliminate? How would you try to create this society?
  • Watch 2081 & Discuss

 

9/4 – 9/8 Class Schedule

Monday 9/4:

  • No School!

 

Tuesday 9/5:

  • Finish reading "Rogue Wave"
  • Complete the "Rogue Wave" Analysis assignment in Teams.
 

Wednesday 9/5:

  • Grammar bell ringer – Sentence types practice 1
  • Review RACE paragraph writing & introduce the Rogue Wave RACE paragraph assignment.

 

Thursday 9/6:

  • Grammar bell ringer – Sentence types practice 2
  • Write Rogue Wave RACE Paragraph – in Teams

 

Friday 9/7:

  • Finish the Rogue Wave RACE paragraph - DUE TODAY
  • Introduction to Utopia & Dystopia (if there's time)

 

 

8/28 – 9/1 Class Schedule

Monday 8/28:

  • Capitalization Grammar Bell Ringer
  • Finish reading “7th Grade”
  • Answer literary terms questions about “7th Grade”
 
Tuesday 8/29:
  • Capitalization Practice 2
  • Nautical Notes
  • Being reading “Rogue Wave” 
 
Wednesday 8/30:
  • Finish reading “Rogue Wave” and discuss.
 
Thursday 8/31:
  • Rogue Wave analysis assignment in Teams
 
Friday 9/1:
  • Library Visits

 

8/21 – 8/25 Class Schedule

Monday 8/21:

  • 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!

Tuesday 8/22:

  • Set up notebooks (Journal, Notes, & Random sections)
  • Literary Terms notes

Wednesday 8/23:

  • Literary terms notes
Thursday 8/24:
  • Finish literary terms notes
  • Finish mapping out the parts of plot from a short story

Friday 8/25:

  • Finish reading “7th Grade”

 

8/17 – 8/18 Class Schedule

Thursday 8/17:

  • Name Tags
Friday 8/18:
  • Finish name tags & share with classmates
  • Expectations & routines