Mrs. Wetz's Seventh Grade LA

Oct. 27 Reading Benchmark Part I	Oct. 28 Reading Benchmark Part II	Oct. 29 Writing Benchmark Revising and Editing Cookie Dough Pick-Up: 3:30-7:30	Oct. 30 Read and work on Study Guide Goal: Ch. 10 Assign Novel Project: due 11-24	Oct. 31 Writing Benchmark Composition Prewriting
Nov. 3 Writing Benchmark Composition Final Draft Word Find due 11-4	Nov. 4 Read and work on Study Guide Quilt Squares due 11-6 Quilt Block Kanji characters	Nov. 5 Read and work on Study Guide Goal: Ch. 14	Nov. 6 Read and work on Study Guide Quilt assembly	Nov. 7 Read and work on Study Guide Goal: Ch. 19 Study Guide
Nov. 10 Read and work on Study Guide Goal: Ch. 24	Nov. 11 No School! Veteran's Day Holiday: Remember those who serve our country	Nov. 12 Read and work on Study Guide Goal: Ch. 27 Fortune Cookies due today!	Nov. 13 Read and work on Study Guide	Nov. 14 Read and work on Study Guide Last day for reading; Goal: Ch. 32 Found Poem: due 11-18
Nov. 17 Computer lab to work on project	Nov. 18 Computer lab to work on project	Nov. 19 Game Day Study Guide due Book Discussion: Test grade	Nov. 20 Tee shirts	Nov. 21 Tee shirts
Nov. 24 ~~Keoko Final Project Due!~~ Moved to Mon., Dec. 1!	Nov. 25 Benchmark scores	Nov. 26 Thanksgiving holidays	Nov. 27 Thanksgiving Day	Nov. 28
Dec. 1 Keoko Final Project Due! Finish movie	Dec. 2 SC 9-1 CPS Survey & Discussion	Dec. 3 SC 9-2 Journal	Dec. 4 SC 10 Read	Dec. 5 SC 11 Read
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Dec. 22 Winter Break	Dec. 23	Dec. 24	Dec. 25	Dec. 26
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Jan. 12 Mid-term Exams	Jan. 13 Mid-term Exams	Jan. 14 Mid-term Exams	Jan. 15 Mid-term Exams Final day of First Semester	Jan. 16 No school

Aug. 25 Rules and Procedures	Aug. 26 "Learning to Live With Peace"	Aug. 27 Parent signature form and first assignment due Friday APE Powerpoint Example	Aug. 28 Hiroshima map and vocabulary words	Aug. 29 To p. 16 in Hiroshima by the end of the day
Sept. 1 No school!	Sept. 2 Literary Bullets & Bombs: 10 bullets due on Sept. 9. To p. 33 in Hiroshima	Sept. 3 How to Survive a Nuclear Attack Create a brochure To p. 47 in Hiroshima	Sept. 4 To p. 59 in Hiroshima	Sept. 5 To p. 74 in Hiroshima
Sept. 8 To p. 90 in Hiroshima	Sept. 9 Subjects of Hiroshima: First period Third period Fourth period Fifth period	Sept. 10 ATT&T powerpoint Literary Bombs: due 9-15 HW: Write 3 thesis statements for Hiroshima	Sept. 11 Memorials for Tragedies HW: Study for library quiz on Friday; Literary Bombs due Monday	Sept. 12 Sketch of memorial for tragedy; due 9-19
Sept. 15 Read "A Boy and a Man" p. 210-216 in literature book	Sept. 16 Sentence Composing: Identifying sentence parts HW: Critical Thinking p. 217 (1-5 ONLY) in complete sentences Progress Reports go out?	Sept. 17 Sentence Composing: Understanding Sentence Unscrambling in groups No homework; sketch due Friday	Sept. 18 Sentence Composing Act. 4 HW: Finish SC Act. 4; Memorial sketch	Sept. 19 Sencence Composing Quiz
Sept. 22 Rewriting Thesis Statements Thesis Statements and evidence from "A Boy and a Man"	Sept. 23 Groups: gather evidence for Thesis Statements Create a web of evidence HW: Complete web and bring Hiroshima to class on Wed.	Sept. 24 Assertions: How you use quotes to prove your thesis Assignment: Write a Thesis Statement for Hiroshima, find 10 quotes, organize one map. Due Thursday.	Sept. 25 SC Act. 5, Practice 1 Apples to Apples!	Sept. 26 SC Act. 5, Practice 2 due at the end of class Hiroshima Composition (example) due Tuesday, 9-30
Sept. 29 Finish SC 5-2 Work on compositions; due tomorrow!	Sept. 30 Hiroshima composition due Color coding Go over rubric	Oct. 1 Ratiocination HW: SC 6-2	Oct. 2 ^Floating quotes and parenthetical citation	Oct. 3 It's for real! The final Hiroshima composition due. SC 7-1
Oct. 6 Library Research: meet in the library! Six-weeks progress reports...	Oct. 7 Library Research: meet in the library!	Oct. 8 TAKS Writing test info Rubric Past prompts	Oct. 9 Read "Seventh Grade" p. 122-127 SC 7-2	Oct. 10 SC 7-7 due Tuesday Quiz over "Seventh Grade" Point of View Game time
Oct. 13 No school!	Oct. 14 Point of View from "Seventh Grade"	Oct. 15 "First Day of School"	Oct. 16 Citation Forms Read, respond, discuss "First Day of School" What's your job? The Three Little Pigs	Oct. 17 Computer lab: D 102 Fairy Tale Assignment--due at the end of class!
Oct. 20 When My Name Was Keoko	Oct. 21 When My Name Was Keoko	Oct. 22 HW: What's in your name? Extra Credit due at 7:50	Oct. 23 Keoko: read and Study Guide Name revealing Game time	Oct. 24 Pass back papers Keoko: read and Study Guide End of the First Nine Weeks!