7th Grade Language Arts

"Read like a wolf eats."-Gary Paulsen

Homework (Students should be reading every night.)

Thursday, 1/14: Read your independent reading book for 20 minutes.  Fill out your reading log.  If you lost your reading log, create one on loose leaf paper. Study for Author's Perspective Quiz that is tomorrow.

Wednesday, 1/13: Read your independent reading book for 20 minutes.  Fill out your reading log.  If you lost your reading log, create one on loose leaf paper. Study for Author's Perspective Quiz that is Friday.  You need to know how to define author's perspective in your own words without using the phrase point of view, you need to know the 4 things to look at when identifying the author's perspective, and you need to be able to read an article and be able to identify the author's perspective.

Tuesday, 1/12: Read your independent reading book for 20 minutes.  Fill out your reading log.  If you lost your reading log, create one on loose leaf paper.

Monday, 1/11: No homework.

Friday, 1/8: No homework.

Thursday, 1/7: No homework.

Wednesday, 1/6: Complete conspiracy theory comic strip. Create a comic strip that shows your theory on how Lauren's mother was killed.  Stick figures are ok. 

Tuesday, 1/5: No homework.

Friday, 12/11: Make sure your rough draft is on one paper and your hamburger graphic organizer is complete. Both will be checked for a class work grade on Monday.

Thursday, 12/10: Make sure your class work is finished.

Wednesday, 12/9: Make sure your class work is finished.

Tuesday, 12/8: 1) Complete hamburger graphic organizer for body paragraph #2.  Transfer the paragraph from the hamburger to lined paper.

Monday, 12/7: 1) Complete hamburger graphic organizer for body paragraph #1.  Transfer the paragraph from the hamburger to lined paper.

Friday, 12/4: Work on Book Project

Thursday, 12/3: Finish introduction paragraph that was started in class.

Monday, 11/30-Friday, 12/4: Work on Book Project.  Due Monday, 12/7!

Wednesday, 11/25: NO HOMEWORK! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday, 11/24: Select a topic you feel passionately about for a persuasive essay.  You must consider a couple of things before deciding on a particular topic. First, what kind of supporting evidence do you think you can come up with for this topic?  Second, what are the people who may be opposed (against) your viewpoint going to say?  Can you think of what you would say back to them?  If you can't think of anything to say back to them, it may not be the best topic to select. 

Monday, 11/23: Is it Reliable? Internet Assignment (See Wednesday night homework) Due tomorrow.

Friday, 11/20: 1) Create flashcards for ethos, pathos, and logos.  No examples are needed. 2) Is it Reliable? Internet Assignment (See Wednesday night homework)

Thursday, 11/19: Is it Reliable? Internet Assignment (See Wednesday night homework)

Wednesday, 11/18: Is it Reliable? Internet Assignment: Pick a website to research a topic (pick a topic).  Using your graphic organizer you created in your journal, apply each of the questions described in the BrainPop video to determine whether the site is a trustworthy source of information. (1. Who is the publisher?, 2. Who is the author-are they well-known and/or qualified to talk about the topic?, 3. In-Depth-does the site have a lot of facts and statistics?, 4. Up-To-Date-was the website updated or created recently?, 5. Accurate-is the information on the website correct?-cross-check the information on that website with another website, 6. Is the website biased?-are they showing favor to one side?)    Due Tuesday, 11/24/09 Be sure to write down the URL of the website you used!

Tuesday, 11/17: No Homework

Monday, 11/16: Answer the following question: Why do you think the Giver finally decided that "things must change"? Your response should be at least a paragraph long.

Persuasive Strategies Test Friday, 11/13/09!!!

Friday, 11/13: Answer the following question: What did you notice about the language used by the author in this book? How does it reflect the community itself?
(I'm not talking about the type of language. I'm talking about how they speak and how they use the language. Think about whether they use sarcasm, slang, precision of language, euphemisms and figuarative vs. literal language.)

Thursday, 11/12:

Tuesday, 11/10: Study for Persuasion Test

Monday, 11/9: Create flash cards for the persuasive strategies that we went over in class today.  One side of the card should have the term (name of the persuasive strategy) and the other side must have the definition and an example.  All of this information can be found in your notes.  Notes can be found on the 'Absent? Get the make up work!' page.

Friday, 11/6: Create flash cards for the persuasive strategies that we went over in class today.  One side of the card should have the term (name of the persuasive strategy) and the other side must have the definition and an example.  All of this information can be found in your notes.  Notes can be found on the 'Absent? Get the make up work!' page.

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Euphemism Quiz Wednesday, 10/7/09!!!!

Tuesday, 10/6:1) Thinking About Varied Expressions of Memory and History Question and 2) Study for euphemism quiz that is tomorrow!

Monday, 10/5: 1) Complete Importance of Memory Question and 2) Study for Euphemism quiz that is on Wednesday.

Friday, 10/2: Complete Euphemism Assignment. Due Monday, 10/5/09.

Wednesday, 9/30: Ms. Kemp extended the time for the Bloom's Taxonomy Assignment for CH. 8.  This is due Thursday, 10/1.

Tuesday, 9/29: 1) Finish Bloom's Taxonomy Assignment for CH. 8 if you didn't finish it in class. 2)Study for vocabulary quiz that is tomorrow!

Monday, 9/28: Draw a picture depicting the defintion for each vocabulary word.  There are 10 vocab. words so you should have 10 pictures.

Monday, 9/14: Complete final draft of short story. Make sure you have everything you need in your story by checking the rubric. Remember: You must skip lines and write in blue or black ink OR type in using New Times Roman 12 pt. font and double space! Due Tuesday, Sept. 15th

Friday, 9/11: Complete final draft of short story. Make sure you have everything you need in your story by checking the rubric.Remember: You must skip lines and write in blue or black ink OR type in using New Times Roman 12 pt. font and double space! Due Tuesday, Sept. 15th

Thursday, 9/10: Study for quiz on quotation marks.

Wednesday, 9/9: Study for quiz on quotation marks.

Monday, 9/8: Revise the dialogue paragraph.  This is in our green grammar books so students will have to see Ms. Kemp during CSS to get a book.

Tuesday, 9/1: Complete BIO POEM.

Monday, 8/31: Write a set of "standard apologies" for 2 student transgressions found in this Language Arts class at Combs Middle School. Remember: A transgression is when someone does something wrong or a rule is broken. For example: In The Giver, the standard apology for being late to class is "I apologize for inconveniencing my learning community."

Friday, 8/28: Complete rough drafts of short story that we have been working on for the last 2 class periods.

Tuesday, 8/25: Finish the characterization assignment that was started in class.