Lesson Plans for October 1 - 5
Monday:
7th Grade:
Final Sentence Fragment Review
The Outsiders Anticipation Guide
Begin The Outsiders, Chapter 1
8th Grade:
Presonal Inventories
Begin Flowers for Algernon Anticipation Guide
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Sentence Fragment Quiz
Complete Chapter 1 and Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Begin Reading Flowers for Algernon
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
The Outsiders Chapter 2
8th Grade:
Continue F4A
Questions
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 2 with Questions
8th Grade:
Continue F4A
Friday:
7th Grade:
The Outsiders Character Chart
8th Grade:
Vocabulary
Sept. 17 - 21
Monday:
7th Grade: Nonfiction Reading
Garbage and Asian Carp: Read and Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Go Over Verb Chart and Review for Tuesday's Quiz
Begin Figurative Language Unit: Notes
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Newsela Articles (practice quizzes)
8th Grade:
Verb Quiz
Figurative Language Practice Handouts
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Biography and Autobiography Stories
Answer Questions
8th Grade:
YouTube Figurative Language Practice Activity
Thursday:
7th Grade: Persuasive Writing
Strategies for Answering Questions
8th Grade: Begin Figurative Language Poems (due 9/26)
Friday:
7th Grade: Nonfiction Quiz
Begin Fiction: Read "The Scholarship Jacket"
Answer Questions
8th Grade: Work on Poems
Lesson Plans for Sept. 10-14
Monday:
7th Grade: Genre Test
8th Grade: Plot Test
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Myth, Fable, and Legend
Read and answer questions
8th Grade:
Verbs
Notes
Worksheet
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Fairy Tale
Tall Tale
Questions
8th Grade:
Verbs
Past and Future Tense
Worksheet
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Folklore Review
Practice Quiz
8th Grade:
Verbs
Class Review
Friday:
7th Grade:
Folklore Quiz
8th Grade:
Verb Quiz
September 4-7
7th Grade:
Tuesday: Powerpoint Notes: Genre
Wednesday: Practice WS #1 AND 8
Genre/Subgenre review
Genre Book Activity
Thursday: Genre Book Activity
***Homework if not completed
Friday: Genre Practice Quiz
Review Activity
8th Grade:
Tuesday: Continue Plot Diagram Project
Wednesday: Internal vs. External Confllict
Read, "Abuela Intents the Zero"
Thursday: Review Point of View, Genre, and Author's Purpose
Read "Gertrude Grew Great"
Complete Plot Diagram for Story
Friday: Read "The Breakaway"
Complete Plot Diagram
Plot Quiz
Lesson Plans for November 13 - 17
Monday
7th Grade: Begin Drafting Narrative
8th Grade: The Giver Journal #3
Complete Chapters 4/5 Questions
Read Chapter 6
(Quiz over 3-5 tomorrow)
Tuesday
7th Grade: Continue/Complete Drafting Narrative
8th Grade:
Quiz 3-5
Read Chapters 7-8
Questions for Homework
Quiz over 6-8 on Wednesday
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Begin typing Narrative
8th Grade:
Quiz 6-8
Read Chapters 9-11
Thursday:
7th Grade: Continue/Complete Typing Narrative
DUE FRIDAY
8th Grade:
Complete reading chap 11 if necessary
Questions 9-11
Read Chapter 12
Begin Utopia Project Brainstorming
Friday:
7th Grade: Hand in Narrative
Silent Reading/AR Book Catch-up Day
8th Grade:
9-12 Quiz
Silent Reading/AR Catch-up Day
Lesson Plans for November 6-10
Monday:
7th Grade:
Begin Personal Narrative Unit
Brainstorming Chart
8th Grade:
Read "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Guided Reading Questions
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Continue Personal Narrative
Highlight Examples: Absolute Innocence
Four Elements Handout
Choose Topic
Detail Chart
8th Grade:
Complete "The Tell-Tale Heart" Questions
Review Figurative Language
Go over questions
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Challenge Day
***Many students will be attending Challenge Day
Library and Silent Reading Day
8th Grade:
Begin "The Giver" semester novel
Introduction Activity: Building Background
Journal #1
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Writing Setting and Character Descriptions
Read Examples and Create Narrative Details
Creating Visual Details with Figurative Language
8th Grade:
Continue "The Giver"
Read Chapter
Answer 1 and 2 Questions
Friday:
7th Grade:
Writing Narrative Lead-In through Dialogue
Begin Putting Narrative Together: Drafting
8th Grade;
Continue "The Giver"
Journal #3
Go over 1 and 2 questions
Read Chapter 3
(Quiz Monday: Chap. 1-2)
Lesson Plans for October 30 – November 3
Monday
7th Grade LA: Group Review of Chapters 10-12
Final Test Review
8th Grade LA: Final Library day for MI project
Vocabulary Quiz
Tuesday
7th Grade LA: The Outsiders Unit Test
8th Grade LA: MI Presentations
Wednesday
7th Grade LA: Watch The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: MI Presentations
Begin Edgar Allen Poe (if time!)
Thursday:
7th Grade LA: Watch The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: Read Edgar Allen Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Friday:
7th Grade LA: Complete The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: Read “A Monkey’s Paw”
Lesson Plans for October 23-27
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Do Chapter 9 Questions
Read Chapter Ten
8th Grade;
Score MI surveys
Introduce MI Project
Begin preliminary idea drafting for project
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Quiz Outsiders 7-9
Read Chapter 11 and 12
Do Chapter 11 Questions
8th Grade:
Vocabulary Practice
Work on MI Project
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 12
Complete all questions
Nothing Gold Can Stay Poem Analysis
8th Grade:
MI Project Work
Vocabulary Final Review
Friday:
7th Grade:
Outsiders 9-12 Quiz
Fishbowl Discussion
Novel Reaction Writing
8th Grade:
Complete work on MI Projects
Practice Class Presentations (will present Monday!)
Vocabulary Quiz
16 - 20
Monday:
7th Grade:
Read Chapter 6
Complete 5-6 Questions
Quiz tomorrow
8th Grade:
Flowers for Algernon
Complete Section One with Discussion
Before and After Chart (due Tuesday)
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Quiz over 4-6
Go over homework
Read pages 100-104
8th Grade:
Flowers for Algernon
Quiz over section 1
Begin Section 2 (pages 691-696)
Go over Chart
Intelligence Chart Handout
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 7
Chapter 7 questions
8th Grade:
Continue Section Two (pages 696-702)
Begin Vocabulary (handout)
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Read Chapter 8 silently
Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Continue and complete vocabulary (due Friday)
Friday:
7th Grade:
Friday Fishbowl Discussion
Poem Analysis: Nothing Gold Can Stay
8th Grade:
Complete Flowers for Algernon
Questions for Discussion
Begin discussing Intelligence Assignment
Lesson Plans for the week of October 9th
Monday:
7th grade: Complete Chapter 2 Questions
Read pages 37-45 of The Outsiders
8th Grade: Verb Tense
Review Present Perfect
Guided Notes: Past Perfect and Future Perfect
Complete PP and FP Worksheets
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Go over chapter 2 questions
Complete reading chapter 3
Chapter 3 Questions (Quiz over 1-3 on Wednesday!)
8th Grade: Go over homework
Review for Wednesday's Verb Test
Personality "tests" and activities
Pre-Reading, "Flowers for Algernon"
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Chapters 1-3 Quiz
Library Day
AR Check-In Day
Read 53-62
8th Grade: Verb Test
Library and AR Check-In
Begin "Flowers for Algernon"
Thursday:
7th Grade: Complete Chapter 4
Questions and Activity
8th Grade: Coontinue "Flowers for Algernon"
Questions and Activity
Friday:
7th Grade: Fishbowl Discussion Activity
8th Grade: Class Activity: F4A
Lesson Plans for the week of October 2
Monday:
7th Grade LA: Go over fragment homework
Fragment Review
Begin Outsiders Unit
Background: Journal question
Chapter 1
8th Grade LA: Complete Poems: Type in class and turn in
Tuesday:
7th Grade LA: Fragment Quiz
The Outsiders Chapter 2
Questions for Chaps. 1 and 2
8th Grade LA: Verb Tenses
Present Perfect Tesnse
Past Perfect Tense
Wednesday:
7th Grade LA: Go over chapter 2 questions
read Chapter 3
Discussion Activity
8th Grade: Continue Present Past perfect tenses
Worksheet
Thursday:
September 25
Monday:
7th Grade: Science Fiction: All Summer in a Day (Read and answer questions);
Historical Fiction: Drummer Boy of Shiloh (Begin Reading)
8th Grade: Complete Poetry Packets
Final Review for Figurative Language Test
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Historical Fiction: Complete Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Fiction Subgenre Quiz
8th Grade: Figurative Language Test
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Grammar Mini-Unit
Sentences: Complete vs. Fragments
8th Grade: Writing Poetry
Random Topic Poem Project
Thursday:
7th Grade: Practice Worksheets: Fragments vs. Complete
8th Grade: Continue Poem Project
Poems due Friday
Friday:
7th Grade: Complete work on fragments: final review
8th Grade: Poems Due!
Verbs: Active vs. Passive
18 - 22
7th Grade LA
Monday: Begin Nonfiction Genre
Characteristics of Informational Reading
Complete "Asian Carp" in class and answer questions
Complete "Garbage" for homework
Tuesday: Nonfiction Biography
Read biography and answer questions
Autobiography: read and answer questions
Wednesday: Nonfiction Persuasive
Read Pro/Con Climate Change Article and answer questions
Thursday: Nonfiction Quiz
Begin Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Friday: Continue Fiction
Science Fiction
8th Grade LA
Monday: Review Past, Preset, and Future Tenses
Simple and Continuous Tense
Worksheet Packet
Tuesday: Verb Tense quiz
Begin Figurative Language
Take Notes
Wednesday: Figurative Language Exercises
Thursday: Figurative Language Identification
Poetry
Friday: Figurative Language Identification
Poetry
Monday:
7th Grade:
Final Sentence Fragment Review
The Outsiders Anticipation Guide
Begin The Outsiders, Chapter 1
8th Grade:
Presonal Inventories
Begin Flowers for Algernon Anticipation Guide
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Sentence Fragment Quiz
Complete Chapter 1 and Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Begin Reading Flowers for Algernon
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
The Outsiders Chapter 2
8th Grade:
Continue F4A
Questions
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 2 with Questions
8th Grade:
Continue F4A
Friday:
7th Grade:
The Outsiders Character Chart
8th Grade:
Vocabulary
Sept. 17 - 21
Monday:
7th Grade: Nonfiction Reading
Garbage and Asian Carp: Read and Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Go Over Verb Chart and Review for Tuesday's Quiz
Begin Figurative Language Unit: Notes
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Newsela Articles (practice quizzes)
8th Grade:
Verb Quiz
Figurative Language Practice Handouts
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Biography and Autobiography Stories
Answer Questions
8th Grade:
YouTube Figurative Language Practice Activity
Thursday:
7th Grade: Persuasive Writing
Strategies for Answering Questions
8th Grade: Begin Figurative Language Poems (due 9/26)
Friday:
7th Grade: Nonfiction Quiz
Begin Fiction: Read "The Scholarship Jacket"
Answer Questions
8th Grade: Work on Poems
Lesson Plans for Sept. 10-14
Monday:
7th Grade: Genre Test
8th Grade: Plot Test
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Myth, Fable, and Legend
Read and answer questions
8th Grade:
Verbs
Notes
Worksheet
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Fairy Tale
Tall Tale
Questions
8th Grade:
Verbs
Past and Future Tense
Worksheet
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Folklore Review
Practice Quiz
8th Grade:
Verbs
Class Review
Friday:
7th Grade:
Folklore Quiz
8th Grade:
Verb Quiz
September 4-7
7th Grade:
Tuesday: Powerpoint Notes: Genre
Wednesday: Practice WS #1 AND 8
Genre/Subgenre review
Genre Book Activity
Thursday: Genre Book Activity
***Homework if not completed
Friday: Genre Practice Quiz
Review Activity
8th Grade:
Tuesday: Continue Plot Diagram Project
Wednesday: Internal vs. External Confllict
Read, "Abuela Intents the Zero"
Thursday: Review Point of View, Genre, and Author's Purpose
Read "Gertrude Grew Great"
Complete Plot Diagram for Story
Friday: Read "The Breakaway"
Complete Plot Diagram
Plot Quiz
Lesson Plans for November 13 - 17
Monday
7th Grade: Begin Drafting Narrative
8th Grade: The Giver Journal #3
Complete Chapters 4/5 Questions
Read Chapter 6
(Quiz over 3-5 tomorrow)
Tuesday
7th Grade: Continue/Complete Drafting Narrative
8th Grade:
Quiz 3-5
Read Chapters 7-8
Questions for Homework
Quiz over 6-8 on Wednesday
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Begin typing Narrative
8th Grade:
Quiz 6-8
Read Chapters 9-11
Thursday:
7th Grade: Continue/Complete Typing Narrative
DUE FRIDAY
8th Grade:
Complete reading chap 11 if necessary
Questions 9-11
Read Chapter 12
Begin Utopia Project Brainstorming
Friday:
7th Grade: Hand in Narrative
Silent Reading/AR Book Catch-up Day
8th Grade:
9-12 Quiz
Silent Reading/AR Catch-up Day
Lesson Plans for November 6-10
Monday:
7th Grade:
Begin Personal Narrative Unit
Brainstorming Chart
8th Grade:
Read "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Guided Reading Questions
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Continue Personal Narrative
Highlight Examples: Absolute Innocence
Four Elements Handout
Choose Topic
Detail Chart
8th Grade:
Complete "The Tell-Tale Heart" Questions
Review Figurative Language
Go over questions
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Challenge Day
***Many students will be attending Challenge Day
Library and Silent Reading Day
8th Grade:
Begin "The Giver" semester novel
Introduction Activity: Building Background
Journal #1
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Writing Setting and Character Descriptions
Read Examples and Create Narrative Details
Creating Visual Details with Figurative Language
8th Grade:
Continue "The Giver"
Read Chapter
Answer 1 and 2 Questions
Friday:
7th Grade:
Writing Narrative Lead-In through Dialogue
Begin Putting Narrative Together: Drafting
8th Grade;
Continue "The Giver"
Journal #3
Go over 1 and 2 questions
Read Chapter 3
(Quiz Monday: Chap. 1-2)
Lesson Plans for October 30 – November 3
Monday
7th Grade LA: Group Review of Chapters 10-12
Final Test Review
8th Grade LA: Final Library day for MI project
Vocabulary Quiz
Tuesday
7th Grade LA: The Outsiders Unit Test
8th Grade LA: MI Presentations
Wednesday
7th Grade LA: Watch The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: MI Presentations
Begin Edgar Allen Poe (if time!)
Thursday:
7th Grade LA: Watch The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: Read Edgar Allen Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Friday:
7th Grade LA: Complete The Outsiders
8th Grade LA: Read “A Monkey’s Paw”
Lesson Plans for October 23-27
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Do Chapter 9 Questions
Read Chapter Ten
8th Grade;
Score MI surveys
Introduce MI Project
Begin preliminary idea drafting for project
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Quiz Outsiders 7-9
Read Chapter 11 and 12
Do Chapter 11 Questions
8th Grade:
Vocabulary Practice
Work on MI Project
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 12
Complete all questions
Nothing Gold Can Stay Poem Analysis
8th Grade:
MI Project Work
Vocabulary Final Review
Friday:
7th Grade:
Outsiders 9-12 Quiz
Fishbowl Discussion
Novel Reaction Writing
8th Grade:
Complete work on MI Projects
Practice Class Presentations (will present Monday!)
Vocabulary Quiz
16 - 20
Monday:
7th Grade:
Read Chapter 6
Complete 5-6 Questions
Quiz tomorrow
8th Grade:
Flowers for Algernon
Complete Section One with Discussion
Before and After Chart (due Tuesday)
Tuesday:
7th Grade:
Quiz over 4-6
Go over homework
Read pages 100-104
8th Grade:
Flowers for Algernon
Quiz over section 1
Begin Section 2 (pages 691-696)
Go over Chart
Intelligence Chart Handout
Wednesday:
7th Grade:
Complete Chapter 7
Chapter 7 questions
8th Grade:
Continue Section Two (pages 696-702)
Begin Vocabulary (handout)
Thursday:
7th Grade:
Read Chapter 8 silently
Answer Questions
8th Grade:
Continue and complete vocabulary (due Friday)
Friday:
7th Grade:
Friday Fishbowl Discussion
Poem Analysis: Nothing Gold Can Stay
8th Grade:
Complete Flowers for Algernon
Questions for Discussion
Begin discussing Intelligence Assignment
Lesson Plans for the week of October 9th
Monday:
7th grade: Complete Chapter 2 Questions
Read pages 37-45 of The Outsiders
8th Grade: Verb Tense
Review Present Perfect
Guided Notes: Past Perfect and Future Perfect
Complete PP and FP Worksheets
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Go over chapter 2 questions
Complete reading chapter 3
Chapter 3 Questions (Quiz over 1-3 on Wednesday!)
8th Grade: Go over homework
Review for Wednesday's Verb Test
Personality "tests" and activities
Pre-Reading, "Flowers for Algernon"
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Chapters 1-3 Quiz
Library Day
AR Check-In Day
Read 53-62
8th Grade: Verb Test
Library and AR Check-In
Begin "Flowers for Algernon"
Thursday:
7th Grade: Complete Chapter 4
Questions and Activity
8th Grade: Coontinue "Flowers for Algernon"
Questions and Activity
Friday:
7th Grade: Fishbowl Discussion Activity
8th Grade: Class Activity: F4A
Lesson Plans for the week of October 2
Monday:
7th Grade LA: Go over fragment homework
Fragment Review
Begin Outsiders Unit
Background: Journal question
Chapter 1
8th Grade LA: Complete Poems: Type in class and turn in
Tuesday:
7th Grade LA: Fragment Quiz
The Outsiders Chapter 2
Questions for Chaps. 1 and 2
8th Grade LA: Verb Tenses
Present Perfect Tesnse
Past Perfect Tense
Wednesday:
7th Grade LA: Go over chapter 2 questions
read Chapter 3
Discussion Activity
8th Grade: Continue Present Past perfect tenses
Worksheet
Thursday:
September 25
Monday:
7th Grade: Science Fiction: All Summer in a Day (Read and answer questions);
Historical Fiction: Drummer Boy of Shiloh (Begin Reading)
8th Grade: Complete Poetry Packets
Final Review for Figurative Language Test
Tuesday:
7th Grade: Historical Fiction: Complete Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Fiction Subgenre Quiz
8th Grade: Figurative Language Test
Wednesday:
7th Grade: Grammar Mini-Unit
Sentences: Complete vs. Fragments
8th Grade: Writing Poetry
Random Topic Poem Project
Thursday:
7th Grade: Practice Worksheets: Fragments vs. Complete
8th Grade: Continue Poem Project
Poems due Friday
Friday:
7th Grade: Complete work on fragments: final review
8th Grade: Poems Due!
Verbs: Active vs. Passive
18 - 22
7th Grade LA
Monday: Begin Nonfiction Genre
Characteristics of Informational Reading
Complete "Asian Carp" in class and answer questions
Complete "Garbage" for homework
Tuesday: Nonfiction Biography
Read biography and answer questions
Autobiography: read and answer questions
Wednesday: Nonfiction Persuasive
Read Pro/Con Climate Change Article and answer questions
Thursday: Nonfiction Quiz
Begin Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Friday: Continue Fiction
Science Fiction
8th Grade LA
Monday: Review Past, Preset, and Future Tenses
Simple and Continuous Tense
Worksheet Packet
Tuesday: Verb Tense quiz
Begin Figurative Language
Take Notes
Wednesday: Figurative Language Exercises
Thursday: Figurative Language Identification
Poetry
Friday: Figurative Language Identification
Poetry