7th Grade English (Period F) Assignments

Extra Credit. This extra credit is intended for those who are getting lower than a C or to make up a missed reading response due date. Do additional reading over the winter break. Complete responses and get a parent signature. This will be collected on Friday, 1/14 along with the reading response for that week.

Extra Credit for all: write an essay of your choice, following the formats that we used for our previous essays. Choose from one of the three following types: narrative (like "A Special Day"), persuasive (like "Spending Money") or a response to literature (like "Smallest Dragonboy"). Due 1/14 or earlier.

A holiday special this week for your reading response notebook- just read for 30 min. a day and get a parent signature (no responses needed) :)

Response to Literature Essay due with all rough draft copies stapled together and turned in separately. Title your essay.

Rough draft response to literature essay

Finish today's classwork: Make a flee map about "The Smallest Dragonboy". You will need an introduction, 3 (or more) body paragraphs, and a conclusion. In the introduction, you need the following: 1. a hook (question, quote, startling statement, etc.) 2. mention the title of the story and the author 3. a short 2-3 sentence summary of the whole story 4. your thesis statement (one statement that addresses what your essay is about). Each of your 3 rectangles should be filled in with one of the character traits that you chose for your character wheel. If one of the traits is about a physical trait (small, young) you will need to change it to a personality trait. Below each rectangle should be the 3 or more supporting details from the story to give examples of how Keevan had that trait. Finally, the conclusion sums up the essay and explains how the story's theme can apply to our lives. Explain why it is important. Make sure that you ask for help in class and at home. We will be working on this response to literature essay in class each day. It is your ongoing work this week. The final essay is due on Friday.

Study for test Monday on "The Smallest Dragonboy". If you didn't finish your classwork on Friday, complete the character wheel about Keevan. Each section of the divided circle map (character wheel) will contain a personality trait to describe Keevan, followed by 3 supporting examples from the story. Follow the format shown in your textbook on page 570, but make the personality traits about Keevan.

Reading response notebook is due. This includes 3 entries from last week (short week) and 4 from this week with a parent signature.

Finish rough draft for "Mother and Daughter" assignment. Each choice has 3 paragraphs with examples from the story to explain how Yollie feels about her mother. Use first person perspective.

Final submission on persuasive essay due. Date extended due to website blocking access. Sorry!

Partner project due

Persuasive Essay Flee Map

Include:
Interesting Opening-question, quote, statistic, startling statement
Introduction with thesis-opinion statement regarding earning money or getting an allowance
3 Reasons for your argument (strongest argument last)
support for each reason
address counterargument for each reason
Conclusion

Those who are finished with their flee map will be able to start typing in their rough draft.

Prompt:
Some parents believe that children should earn their own spending money by helping out around the home. Others believe that children should receive an allowance and should not be required to earn their spending money. Should children be required to earn their spending money or should they receive an allowance to obtain their spending money? Write an essay persuading parents to accept your opinion on whether or not children should have to earn their own spending money.

Quizzes on plot (review Eng. notebook notes and pg. 4-5 in literature book), vocabulary, and spelling. Reading responses and English nbk. checked

Reading response notebooks checked. Quiz on verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. Spelling quiz.

Turn in your book orders (cash please so I can use my credit card to order over the phone)

Vocabulary, spelling and grammar test. Reading response notebooks due with parent signature. Finish reading the story, "Rikki Tikki Tavi" if you didn't finish in class. Complete pg. 36 #7-11.

Your 5th/final submission on your special day essay is due. If you don't have Internet access at home, you may use the computer lab at nutrition, lunch, and after school.

Finish classwork if you didn't finish:
In the English literature book, read pgs. 4 & 5 and take Cornell notes on plot. These notes go into your English spiral.
Write a quickwrite about conflict that has occurred in your own life or the life of a character in a novel or movies. Write about 3 different conflicts.

Turn in your reading responses for your independent reading ( 4+ entries of 30 min. each) with a parent signature

Bring your rough draft essay of "A Special Day" If you are finished with your other work, you will be using the laptops Fri. to revise and submit again.

1st Submission of A Special Day essay due

On Monday 9/27, we will meet in the computer lab. Unless you already turned it in to me, you need to bring the following stapled together in this order, top to bottom: 1. Rough draft of "A Special Day" essay 2. Flee map 3. Circle map 4. Writing prompt (1/2 sheet). This is a shortened day, so it is really important that you have your paper so you can spend the time typing. If you were absent or lost it, here is the prompt:

A Special Day

Think about a special day in your life, a day when something unusual or memorable happened. It might have been the first day of school, your birthday, or some other day.

Write your story telling what happened to you on that day and describe why it was special.

As you write your story, think about these questions:
*did you write a story about the assigned topic?
*did you use details to describe the characters, places, and events?
*did you organize your story clearly with a beginning, middle and end?
*did you use a variety of words and well-written sentences/
*did you use correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

We will have a grammar/reading quiz on Tuesday. This will cover information about sentence types, sentences vs. fragments, and the two stories, Duffy's Jacket, and Yeti-Like Monster..

Grammar, Spelling, Vocab. and Reading test Friday.

Finish writing your first draft essay on your special day. On Monday, we will be going to the computer lab during our class time to type our essays and submit them.

Finish your circle map of ideas on different special days in your life. Decide which day you would like to focus on to write about. Highlight it.

Complete pg. 16 in grammar packet: "Classifying Sentences by Purpose B" Only pg. 16 needs to be completed at this time. We will continue to work on the packet throughout the week. Begin studying for the spelling and vocabulary portions of Friday's test.

Vocab. words #3
1. baffle
2. confer
3. elusive
4. flounder
5. intent
6. menace
7. peculiar
8. presume
9. recede
10. renown
11. staid

Complete both sides of the worksheet that we were working on in class today: Sentences and Sentence Fragments.

If you would like to order books from the book club, turn in your order by Monday. Cash please, so I can order with my credit card. If you were absent Fri. 9/17, you will need to make up the spelling/vocab. quiz that we took.

Quiz on vocabulary and spelling words for the week. Both the English notebook and the independent reading response notebook will be collected.

spelling and vocab. quiz
reading response signed by parents for the week
reading response notebook and English notebook collected
parent signature on course description letter.

Complete in your English notebook today's classwork if you did not finish.
We used all of our vocabulary words to create a short story.

Vocab. words: 1. fumigate 2. sentinel 3. sabotage 4. huddle 5. wade 6. prickle 7. frantic 8. lurk 9. clomp 10. wrangle

Reading Classwork: "Duffy's Jacket" 1. Describe Duffy (bubble map or write out) 2. Describe the setting (bubble map or write out) 3. Make a prediction of what may happen in the story based on the title and what we know so far (after reading pgs. 7-8) 4. Copy one interesting quote from the text so far. Write a response to it.

Update both your English notebook and your independent reading response notebook by Friday.

You should read for 30 minutes and write a reading response in your spiral notebook. Do not write a summary. Look at the notes that you took in class. You can explain your opinion, make a thinking map, make predictions, ask questions, explain quotes, and more.

Finish Mrs. Toran letter
1st paragraph-background info. about yourself
2nd paragraph-your hobbies and interests
3rd paragraph-your academic and personal goals