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What's Happening in Sheely's ELA classes
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Week of February 24th
- Vocab packet "Underground Palace", due Friday
- Everlost cards (chapters or key words) are due Thursday, 2/27 (Ch. 17+18, 19+20)
- Identifying author's claim in argument
- WORD COUNTS are due on Wednesday, 3/11. Goal is 250,000 words!
Week of February 10th
- There will be no vocab packet this week
- ELA benchmarking will be on Wednesday and Thursday of this week
- Continue reading Everlost as a class
Week of January 27th
- Students will be completing new vocabulary work this week and the list will increase to 20 words
- Historical setting research and connection to Everlost
- Begin Everlost book and work on chapter requirements
Week of January 13th
- Read and analyze The Highwayman and the poem Abandoned Farmhouse
- Work with new vocabulary packet and criteria
- Review essay writing
**Reminder - Behavior agreements were due to 8th period teachers for 2nd semester on Friday, 1/10.
Week of January 7th
- Connotation and denotation of words
- 6 word stories
- Read and analyze The Highwayman
- NEW 1,000,000 Word Challenges handed out; 250,000 words due Wednesday, March 11th
Week of December 16th
EXAM SCHEDULE...
- Thursday - Periods 3,4,7,8
- Friday - Periods 5,6 **Dismiss at 10:40 am!!!
Week of December 9th
- holiday concept mapping
- Begin A Christmas Carol
- Random Acts of Kindness challenge!
- Word counts are due on FRIDAY, 12/13
Week of December 2nd
- Work on holiday concept mapping with difficult words
- Read The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers and analyze the text
- Work on the RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS CHALLENGE (attached to text)
- NO HOMEWORK?? Your child should be reading independently as they work on their word counts! 250,000 words are due by Friday, Dec. 13th
- Items for boxes for the elderly are due December 6th!! 7th grade items to send in are: gloves, crossword and/or word find puzzles in large print, cough drops, lemon drops, wrapping paper, shoes boxes. SEND ALL ITEMS TO GUIDANCE OFFICE!!
Week of November 18th
- Completing A Long Way Home this week! Book notes will be due on Monday, 11/25
- Vocab + concept mapping due Friday, 11/22
- Movie permission slips are PAST DUE! Please send permission for your child to watch Lion
- NO HOMEWORK?? Your child should be reading independently as they work on their word counts! 250,000 words are due by Friday, Dec. 13th
Week of November 11th
Week of November 4th
- Analyzing argument essays;writing for a grade
- Reading A Long Way Home; Ch. 5 & 6 (some classes are in different places)
- Writing on the importance of Veterans Day
- Vocabulary study - packet work is due Friday, along with a quiz
Week of October 28th
- Reading A Long Way Home; Ch. 4-6 notes will be due by Thursday
- Analyzing argument essays
- Reading and watching Roald Dahl's The Landlady for our spooky story series
Week of October 21st
- Reading A Long Way Home; Ch. Prologue-3 notes will be due by Thursday (done in class)
- Complex, compound/complex sentence types; quiz on Friday
- Writing & analyzing argument essays
Week of October 14th
- Introduction to A Long Way Home (class book)
- Simple, compound, complex sentences
- Analyzing an argument essay for characteristics
- 1,000,000 Word Challenge Quarter 2 = 250,000 words due by Friday, December 13th (class book counts)
Week of September 30th
- Read and analyze Beowulf (junior version)
- Complete a first quarter benchmark of skills
- Google Earth project in preparation to read A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly after break
- 250,000 words for word challenge is due on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3rd!
Week of September 23rd
- Read and analyze Beowulf (junior version)
- Vocab packet = Rattlesnakes (ew); due Friday, 9/27
- Dependent versus independent clauses
- 250,000 words for word challenge is due on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3rd!
Week of September 17th
- Read and analyze Greek myths (we ran out of time last week!)
- Archetype connections to myths and legends
- Analyze informational essays with a class created rubric
- NO VOCAB THIS WEEK!
**Reminder** Students should be reading towards their 250,000 word goal for this quarter! These are due the week before fall break! All reading counts, including class stories!
Week of September 9th
- Read and analyze Greek myths
- Character archetype study
- Vocabulary study on Barbara Jordan; packet due Friday; quiz Friday
- Writing informational essays
Week of August 26th
- Analysis of literary texts
- Dissecting an exemplar narrative essay; comparing to our own
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Article of the Week
**Weekly assignment due: Vocabulary packet/quiz on Thursdays**
Week of August 18th
- Students will be learning about the parts of literary text this week
- Vocabulary packet is due and a quiz will be on Thursday
- Cookie dough second turn-in is Thursday, August 22nd
- Summer reading is due FRIDAY, August 23rd! Find extra forms here: https://twh.sumnerschools.org/
Week of Monday, August 12th
- Students will take a reading comprehension screener
- Review of informational text
- Quiz over nouns/verbs
- article of the week
- Intro to annotating for literary text
**Reminder** Summer reading forms are due Friday, August 23rd!
These WILL count towards student word counts for quarter 1!
What's Happening in Sheely's ELA classes
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