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New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.1.d

  1. The introduction and three body paragraphs of their essay are checked by the teacher and edits are given back. The students get edits and feedback each day for their essay and they conference with the teacher so that they can improve upon the techniques for the analytical essays. 
  2. The introduction and three body paragraphs of their essay are checked by the teacher and edits are given back. The students get edits and feedback each day for their essay and they conference with the teacher so that they can improve upon the techniques for the analytical essays.
  3. Student conferencing and self-evaluation rubrics are done by the students to track their progress in addition to individual conferences with the teacher. 
  4. CommonLit Assignments: Students read one literary article a day and post comments on Google Classroom evaluating the article read and utilizing the writing techniques taught. 

February 11-30 2020

New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.1.d


  1. Students receive their brainstorming and letter prewrite chart to start coming up with possible heroes that they wish to write to. Once they choose their hero, the brainstorming activity consists of them using adjectives to describe their hero, write about an event that that made this person their hero or maybe they are considered their hero because they have inspired the world. 
  2. Students use the Chromebooks to research the hero they choose unless it is someone they know personally.
  3. The students begin descriptive writing techniques. The teacher shows an illustrated painting of The Hobbit landscape and asks the students to identify the nouns that they see on the painting. We then discuss and describe each noun indicated and use descriptive word techniques to further describe the chosen nouns.
  4. The students print a copy their hero essay to begin mailing out the letters this week and next week. 
 
February 20-22 2019 (Week’s Work)


New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.1.d
 
  1. (Descriptive writing techniques) The teacher shows an illustrated painting of The Hobbit landscape and asks the students to identify the nouns that they see on the painting. We then discuss and describe each noun indicated and use descriptive word techniques to further describe the chosen nouns.
  2. CommonLit Passages used in order to prepare and review for NJSLS Testing: passages include evidence-based passages with Part I and Part II, constructed responses, and analytical and narrative essays. Culmination of the entire year’s reading and writing curriculum.
 


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New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.1.d

  1. Students have been taking notes for the past month on a variety of sentence structures including fragments, run-on, simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences structures in additions to the clauses and conjunctions that define each 
  2. Students practice with partners and then review with the teacher. To begin, the concept of compound sentences is reviewed first as a reminder. The correct conjunction types for compound sentences are reviewed and then practiced in groups and with the teacher.
  3. Students share their completed answers to the compound sentence sheet with the class by writing the sentences on the board and reviewing them with the teacher so that we could correct them as a class. 
  4. Sentence types quiz distributed today

February 1-February 30th , 2019

New Jersey Student Learning Standards:
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
*ELA-Literacy.W.7.1.d

  1. Student play a jeopardy review game to study for simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. 
  2. Students receive their quizzes back regarding sentence types and review the answers to them as a whole class with the teacher. 
  3. After the review, the students go into cooperative groups to revise their notes and do practice activities with their group members. 
  4. The introduction and three body paragraphs of their essay are checked by the teacher and edits are given back. The students get edits and feedback each day for their essay and they conference with the teacher so that they can improve upon the techniques for the analytical essays. 
  5. The introduction and three body paragraphs of their essay are checked by the teacher and edits are given back. The students get edits and feedback each day for their essay and they conference with the teacher so that they can improve upon the techniques for the analytical essays. 
  6. The students work in the Computer Lab for both periods to complete their essay. Students incorporate their edits, use formats for all body paragraphs, and conference with the teacher one last time as they complete the final draft of their analytical essay. 
  7. Eulogy assignments will be held all day on Friday, February 1st. 
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