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Mrs. Manders
7th and 8th Grade Language Arts
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Lesson Plans for October 29 - 2
Monday:
7th Grade:
Go over chapter questions
Review:  Foreshadowing, Flashback, Conflict
Test Review

8th Grade:
Read "Tell Tale Heart"
Prediction questions

Tuesday:
Reward Day

Wednesday:
7th Grade:
The Outsiders unit test

8th Grade:  
Tell Tale Heart Assignment:

Thursday:
7th Grade:
Outsiders Movie

8th Grade:
Monkey's Paw

Friday:
7th Grade:
Outsiders Movie

8th Grade:
​Monkey's Paw

THursday







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
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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
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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

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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)

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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”


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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
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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

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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
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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










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    • Mrs. Russell (Elliott)
    • Mrs. Warner
    • Mr. Seidl
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    • Mr. Gunnells
    • Mrs. Schulze
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    • Mr. Frey
    • Mr. Eagen
    • Mr. Norman
  • L.A.
    • Ms. Soltis
    • Mrs. Manders
    • Mr. Marshall
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    • Mr. Mohr
    • Mrs. Smith
    • Mrs. Hollow
    • Mrs. Norman