Classroom News/Due Dates:

• October 22 - Homework Assignment Due - “Amigo Brothers” by Piri Thomas
• November 2- English DCA
• December 14 - English DCA (Exam)
• December 17 - i-Ready Reading Goals Due (8 passed lessons, 320 minutes of time on task, & 70% pass rate)

Standards Covered this Week: 

Focus Standards:

* RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an accurate summary of the text based upon this analysis.

 

Ongoing Standards: 

• RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• RI.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• W.7.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
•  SL.7.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

Essential Question(s): What elements are required for an accurate, objective summary of a literary text?

I can...

• provide an accurate, objective summary of a literary text.
• Read and comprehend 7th grade informational texts proficiently.

Ready Mississippi 7 Reading Lesson: Lesson 8 - Summarizing Literary Texts, pages 69-76

Quarter 2 Extended Text: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman

Lesson Plans

Monday, October 18:

• Bellwork: The students will complete the English Skill Builder “Punctuation #2” and review the correct answers.
• Anticipatory Set: The teacher will discuss the agenda, essential question(s), and “I can” statements  for the week as written on the board.  The teacher will distribute the week's homework and review its directions.
• Classwork: The Teacher will introduce the homework (“Amigo Brothers”) - story and questions)  and give instructions for its completion and due date.  The Teacher will work with students to read, discuss, and answer questions about “Glooskap and the Wasis” (Ready, pages 70-71).  The teacher and students will continue reading Phineas Gage.  Students will complete the Chapter 1: “Horrible Accident” in Vermont, p. 1-22 Guided Notes.
• Early Finishers: Work on your homework in CommonLit ("Amigo Brothers").

Tuesday, October 19:

• Bellwork: The students will write complete sentences using the conjunctions because, but, and so.
• Anticipatory Set:The teacher will review vocabulary wall words summary, accurate, and objective.
• Classwork: The Teacher will work with students to read, discuss, and answer questions about “Beowulf and Grendel” (Ready, pages 72-73).  The teacher and students will continue reading Phineas Gage.  Students will complete  the Chapter 1: “Horrible Accident” in Vermont, p. 1-22 Guided Notes.
• Early Finishers: Work on your homework in CommonLit ("Amigo Brothers").

Wednesday, October 20:

• Bellwork: The students will answer a writing prompt: Do you think Phineas is lucky or unlucky for surviving his “horrible accident”?  Why?
• Anticipatory Set: The students will partner up and share their writing.
• Classwork: The Teacher will work with students to read and answer questions about “Gift from the Heavens” (Ready, pages 74-76).  The teacher and students will continue reading Phineas Gage.  Students will complete the Chapter 2: What We Thought About How We Thought, p. 23-42 Guided Notes.
• Early Finishers: Work on your homework in CommonLit ("Amigo Brothers").

Thursday, October 21:

• Bellwork: The students will research the following site: https://msktc.org/tbi/factsheets/Understanding-TBI/Brain-Injury-Impact-On-Individuals-Functioning and scroll to “Brain Areas & Associated Functions” to see the functions controlled by the 6 brain areas.
• Anticipatory Set: The teacher will discuss the bellwork with the class as we analyze the extent of Phineas’s injury and infer other possible changes/conclusions had he injured a different area of his brain.  
• Classwork: The teacher and students will continue reading Phineas Gage.  Students will complete the Chapter 2: What We Thought About How We Thought, p. 23-42 Guided Notes.
  
• Early Finishers: Work on your homework in CommonLit ("Amigo Brothers").

Friday, October 22:

• Bellwork: The students will check the answers to their homework assignment.
  
• Anticipatory Set: The teacher will discuss themes from “Amigo Brothers.”
• Classwork: The teacher will go over this week’s homework assignment.  The teacher and students will continue reading Phineas Gage.  Students will complete the Chapter 2: What We Thought About How We Thought, p. 23-42 Guided Notes.  Students will turn in notes for a daily grade.  Students will write a summary of Phineas Gage Chapter 1, including main characters, setting, important events, conflict, conflict resolution, and theme.
• Early Finishers: i-Ready Reading.