Already the end of February...Activities in Middle School Language Arts, February 2 - March 2, 2012

Will March come in like a LION or a LAMB?   You can be sure we will hit the books like a lion this week with many exciting activities to grab your attention!

7th Grade Reading:
MONDAY-
We will begin our March book report today by completing a current book inventory and complete the period with DEAR.

TUESDAY-
Today we will connect what we have learned about folktales, tall tales, and legends as we learn about Canadian folktales.  We will begin an Animoto storytelling project.

WEDNESDAY-
Project workday
HOMEWORK:  Students will work on finding photos for their Animoto.

THURSDAY-
Project workday
HOMEWORK:  Students will work on putting together their Animoto.

FRIDAY-


Project workday and/or Begin Presentations
HOMEWORK:  Animoto projects will be due and ready for presentation at the beginning of class on Monday.

8th Grade Reading:
MONDAY-
Read aloud from Scholastic SCOPE the Reader's Theatre called, "Rip Van Winkle"  followed by discussion about legends, tall tales, and folklore.
HOMEWORK:  Students will complete a Critical Thinking worksheet.


TUESDAY-
We will make unit folders for our Afghanistan novel called Seven Daughters and Seven Sons.  We will work on mapping and unit vocabulary today.
HOMEWORK:  Students will be responsible for completing mapping and vocabulary.


WEDNESDAY-
We will begin reading pages 1 - 28 including discussion questions to aid in understanding the culture.
HOMEWORK:  Students will complete a take-home quiz based on pages read in class.


THURSDAY-
We will finish pages 1 - 28 today.
HOMEWORK:  Students will complete the take-home quiz over pages 1 - 28.


FRIDAY-
We will begin our March book report today by completing a current reading inventory followed by DEAR.
HOMEWORK:  None


6th Grade Reading:
MONDAY-
Students will complete a KWL regarding the Dirty Thirties the begin reading the book by the same title.  We will carefully define unknown words and learn about life on and off Wall Street.  We will also discuss locating the main idea.
HOMEWORK:  Complete Practice Book page 146.


TUESDAY-
We will complete chapter 1 of The Dirty Thirties today. We will collect practice book pages 145 - 156.
HOMEWORK: Practice book page 158.


WEDNESDAY-
Today's bellringer will be to write a Stage 1 paragraph about Chapter 1 of The Dirty Thirties followed by the reading of Chapter 2 and note taking.


THURSDAY-
We will continue reading Chapter 2 today.


FRIDAY-

We will begin our March book report today by completing a current reading inventory followed by DEAR.

HOMEWORK:  None

6th Grade Language:

MONDAY-

Students will copy and correct DOL at the beginning of class.  We will copy spelling words for the next unit into our planners and then finish our work on verbs in the perfect tense.

HOMEWORK:  Practice book page 160

TUESDAY-

Class will begin with DOL, copy and correct.  Students will discuss the word sort for the current spelling list and complete practice book page 161 with a partner.  We will complete a conjunction review page 154.

HOMEWORK:  Practice book page 155 (graded)

WEDNESDAY-

Once again we will copy and correct DOL.  We will continue our study of verbs by learning about active and passive and the verb forms of be and have.

HOMEWORK:  None

THURSDAY-

This will be the final day of DOL before our quiz on Friday.  We will discuss subject and verb agreement.  Complete practice book page 162.

HOMEWORK:  Study for DOL quiz and Spelling test.

FRIDAY-

Students will partner review for the DOL quiz, followed by taking the spelling test and DOL quiz.

7th Grade Language:

MONDAY-

Students will begin class by copying and correcting DOL.  We will learn about proper punctuation for use of quotation marks.  Students will complete a quotation practice sheet as well as Item 3 on the creative writing assignment we have been working on.

HOMEWORK:  Part 3 and quotation practice.

TUESDAY-

Students will again copy and correct DOL.  Next, students will begin working on their first draft of the newspaper article.

HOMEWORK:  None

WEDNESDAY-

Copy and correction of DOL will be the first job of 7th graders in Language today.  We will then continue work on our first draft of the newspaper article.

HOMEWORK:  Rough draft will be due at the beginning of class on Thursday.

THURSDAY-

This will be the final day for copying and correcting DOL before the quiz on Friday.  Students will peer edit their rough drafts.

HOMEWORK:  Study fo rthe DOL quiz which will be during class on Friday.

FRIDAY-

Students will buddy study for the DOL quiz discussing grammar rules we have covered this week.

HOMEWORK:  None