Lesson Plan for: September 12-16, 2011

English 7 / Mrs. Scales

Monday—

• Quick Write – What I like best about the novel is…
• Review Weekly Lesson Plans on Moodle
• Read Daily Classroom Blog / Review Classroom Participation Glogster
• Root Card: log, logue – Raysen/ Bradley / Chase / Daxton
• Review Final Project requirements for novels
• Review for or take AR quiz

Tuesday— BookTalk Tuesday

• 1, 2 & 7^th period -Finish reading any of The Call of the Wild by Jack London that you have not completed or take AR test.
• 4th period QW – What makes a fantasy world real to you when you read a really well written fantasy?

• Read Daily Classroom Blog
• Root Card: mono –. Austin/ Darinda / Shelby / Jalen
• Book Talk Tuesday Presentations:
• Writing Mini Lesson – What is an Essay
• Writing Workshop – Revisions on Essay

• Homework: Complete any reading not finished in class. Begin working on selected final project items.

Wednesday— Progress Reports

• 1, 2 & 6^th period –Take AR test over The Call of the Wild by Jack London if you have not taken it yet.
• 4th period – The World of Fantasy – Creating a World for Your Fantasy Project Introduction
• Read Daily Classroom Blog
• Root Card: arch – Lucas / Levi / Lexi /Perry
• Work Day for Novel Final Project

• Homework: Complete any reading and work on final project.

Thursday—

• Quick Write – Free Write
• Read Daily Classroom Blog
• Root Card:cracy or crat – Karli/ Nathan / Jordan / Breanna

• Work Day for Novel Final Project
• Homework – Continue working on novel final projects.

Friday—

• If you have not taken the AR test for the book your class period read by today you will have to write an AR summary to take it later.
• Root Card:the or theo – April/ Brayden / Payton / Cameron
• Last Work Day for Novel Final Project – All final projects due by end of class today.

Yesterday, on Wednesday September 7, 2011 we began class with the usual reading of the blog.  From now on, Mrs. Scales isn’t going to write read the blog on the board because we just all know we need to read the blog everyday.  It is a great review of what happened yesterday in class.   Reading the blog enforces important information we covered and will be expected to know. Such things as the root word for the day.

 

Yesterday our root word was meter or metry, which means to measure or a measurement.

 

Our example words were mostly made up of two roots put together and part of our presentation is pointing that out or linking the words to the roots we have learned or in some cases will be learning.

 

Pedometer : pedo METER (pe dom’ et er) n.Instrument for measuring the distance walked.  We haven’t had the root ped yet, but it means foot, as in walking by foot.

 

Perimeter : peri METER (pe rim’ et er) n.The distance around a closed plane figure. Everyone should always get this measurement correct in math class because we have used the example word so many times. Peri means around and meter means measurement, therefore the perimeter is the measurement around the outside of something.

 

Thermometer : thermo METER (ther mom’ et er) n. An instrument for measuring heat. We have already had therm and know it means heat,  Stick meter on the end of thermo and obviously you have something to measure heat.

 

We also reviewed all of the root words we have has so far so that everyone will be ready for the test on Friday.  It is our first root word test and worth 30 points.

 

We moved on to a packet on the book we are reading.  Most of us received The Call of the Wild packet, but 4^th period received a packet on Artimis Fowl.

 

The Call of the Wild packet reviewed the idea of using context clues to identify both literal and inferential meanings to words we might not know. We had 20 words from the book and Mrs. Scales went through the meaning to each one of them in class.  The smart thing to do was to write down the definition for each word while she was explaining it in class, but those who didn’t do that will now have to use a dictionary to look the words up again.  We did the first question in class, but have to complete number 2 through 11 on our own.

 

The packet also had three examples of graphic organizers. Remember a graphic organizer is a way to visually put information into a picture for the mind. We have to add at least three more situations and how they changed Buck from the first three chapters on the first graphic organizer. The second graphic organizer is a spider chart and we have to complete it for chapters 4 and 5.  Then when we are finished with the book, the last graphic organizer is a sequence chain where we have to list in the order that they happened the steps Buck took on his gradual return to the wild.

 

The packet also has a list of characters and dogs from the book. We should know who each one is before we attempt to take the AR quiz over The Call of the Wild.  We have to turn our packet in when we are ready to take the AR quiz and that could be anytime between now and next Tuesday.

 

We had a little time left in class to work on the craft review of the day.  Today we reviewed Whispering Parenthesis, Ellipsis, and Colons.