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Are you ready to enter The Zone? Don't be scared... the Reading Zone is a place where you will travel, wonder, laugh, cry, worry, rage, and triumph with characters you love. It's like seeing a movie in your head while you read a book... but better. You'll see what I'm talking about as we advance further.
Do you love to write? We are looking for staff members of this year's In Focus literary magazine. 6th, 7th and 8th graders should see Mrs. Tripp. Even if you aren't interested in editing or producing the quarterly publication, submissions are being accepted begning in September for our first issue, due out in November. You can access the last issue of the magazine right from this website! |
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Monday September 19
-Read for 30 minutes
-Abra Vocabra "dumbfounded" and "waiver"
-Grammar page 7
-Write two free verse poems
-Journal entry about free verse poems
Answer these questions:
a) What did yo like best about writing your poems?
b) What was hardest for you when writing your poems?
c)What did you learn while writing your poems?
d) What else do you want to say?
Tuesday September 20
-Read for 30 minutes
-Study Abra Vocabra List One for test tomorrow
-Write D2 of free verse poem
-Grammar page 8
Wednesday September 21
-Read for 30 minutes
-Grammar page 9
-Write Draft 3 of free verse poem
Link to All Your Homework This Week |
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7th Grade Rules
1. Respect Yourself
2. Respect Others
3. Respect Property
Qualities expected from you and me
1. Be helpful
2. Ask questions
3. Make new friends
4. Practice empathy
5. Think before you act
6. Take timet to listen.
7. Be responsible.
8. Have dreams.
9. Think for yourself.
10. Improve your self.
11. Be open-minded
12. Share.
13. Do the write thing.
14. Seek wisdom
15. Promote peace.
16. Thank someone.
17. Engage in dialogue.
18. Celebrate differences.
19. Be kind.
20. Create something original every day.
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This year we will focus on the following text structures:
1. Problem/Solution
2. Description
3. Sequence
4. Cause and Effect
5. Compare and Contrast
Week of September 19: Lost City of the Incas
Copy and paste this link in your browser to see picturehttp:/s and learn more about this fascinating place. /www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Peru/IncaTrail/index.html
What other articles can you find on the Internet that relate to this topic?
We will also be focusing on the following skills:
1. Summarizing
2. Finding the main idea
3. Distinguishing fact from opinion
Come back soon to find links to online magazines that feature expository text appropriate for your age group. In the meantime, read a newspaper for awesome examples of expository!
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Improve your vocabulary while you save the world!!! Play the word game below. For every correct answer, the website will donate ten grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. You can check on the box to make the words easier or harder.
Online Quiz to Stop Hunger
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Use these links to practice the skills you learned in each lesson
Unit One
Gum Lesson 1 Subjects and predicates
Gum Lesson 2 Simple_Subjects _and_Predicates
Gum Lesson 3 Compound_subjects_and_predicates
Gum Lesson 4 Direct_Objects_Practice
Gum Lesson 5 Indirect_Objects_Practice
Gum Lesson 6 Predicate_nouns_and_adjectives
Gum Lesson 7 Prepositional_phrases
Gum Lesson 8
Gum Lesson 9 Adverbial_Prepostional_Phrases
Gum Lesson 10 appositives
Unit Two
Gum Lesson 11 Types_of_sentences
Gum Lesson 12 Simple_Compound_and_run-on_sentences
Gum Lesson 13 Dependent_and_Independent_Clauses
Gum Lesson 14 Quiz_on_sentence_types
Gum Lesson 15 Adjective_Clauses
Gum Lesson 16 Adverb_and_Adjective_Clause_Quiz
Gum Lesson 17 Infinitive_Phrases
Gum Lesson 18 Participial_Phrases
Gum Lesson 19 Gerund_Phrases
Gum Lesson 20 Misc_grammar_practice
Unit Three
Gum Lesson 21 - Common and Proper Nouns
Gum Lesson 22 - Plural Nouns 1, Nouns Review, The Plural Girls
Gum Lesson 23 - Possessive Noun Practice, More Possessive Practice
Gum Lesson 24 - Personal, Pronouns
Gum Lesson 25 - Possessive Pronouns
Gum Lesson 27 - Relative Pronouns, Interrogative Pronouns
Gum Lesson 28 - Indefinite Pronouns
Gum Lesson 29 - Adjectives
Gum Lesson 30 - Demonstrative, Demonstrative Pronouns
Unit Four
Gum Lesson 31 - Linking Verbs, Action verbs
Gum Lesson 32 - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Lesson, More transitive and intransitive verbs
Gum Lesson 33 - Active and Passive Voice, Active to passive transformation, Active and Passive Practice Test
Gum Lesson 34- Tense 1, Tense 2, Tense 3
Gum Lesson 35 - The Perfect Tense, Perfect tense 2
Gum Lesson 36 - Future Progressive Tense,Past Progressive, Present Progressive Tense
Gum Lesson 37 - Adverbs
Gum Lesson 38 - Prepositions
Gum Lesson 39 - Coordinating and subordinating Conjunctions, Basic Coordinating Conjunctions, Basic Subordinating Conjunctions
Gum Lesson 40 - Correlative Conjunctions
Unit Five
Gum Lesson 41 your and you're,
Gum Lesson 42 their, they're, there
Gum Lesson 43 its and it's
Gum Lesson 44 who's and whose
Gum Lesson 45 to, too, two
Gum Lesson 46 than and then
Gum Lesson 47 Negatives
Gum Lesson 48 Other homophone mistakes
Gum Lesson 49 lie and lay, set and sit, commonly mistaken words
Gum Lesson 50 more irregular verbs
Unit Six
Gum Lesson 51 Pronouns
Gum Lesson 52 Subject-Object
Gum Lesson 53 Antecedents
Gum Lesson 54 who-whom, who_whom
Gum Lesson 55 Agreement
Gum Lesson 56 Compoundsubjects
Gum Lesson 57 moreagreement
Gum Lesson 58 dangling_modifiers
Gum Lesson 59 Comparative_and__Superlative_Modifiers
Gum Lesson 60 Auxiliary_Verbs
Unit Seven
Gum Lesson 61 Capitalization, Links for lots more capitalization practice!
Gum Lesson 62 Abbreviation
Gum Lesson 63 Titles
Gum Lesson 64 Possessives, Contractions and a4esl
Gum Lesson 65 Commas
Gum Lesson 66 Direct Address and Introductory Words
Gum Lesson 67 Independent Clauses, Colons
Gum Lesson 68 Parentheses and Hyphens
Gum Lesson 69 Indirect Quotations and Direct Quotations
Gum Lesson 70 Letter_Generator
Unit Review
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Are you wondering what to read next? Here are some wonderful suggestions of books chosen by kids your age. Some of them I have in my class library; others you will have to locate on your own.
Teen Reads
Lexile Levels
Amazon Enter a book you love, then look for the section that tells you what other books people have bought who also bought your favorite book
Caudill Award Winners
Center for Teaching And Learning Kids Recommend
ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers - reluctant means kids who don't really want to read
ALA Alex Award Winner
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
National Book Award Winner or Finalist
Michael Priontz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
Kirkus Review
Book List
Chicago Public Library Look at the "book lists" for recommended books!
Scholastic Stacks for Kids - includes social networking, book reviews, recommendations by genre, and videos.
For your other classes, see below:
Social Studies Website
Math Website
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Every week we will read and discuss a poem during class. If you lost your copy of the poems, they can be found in this section each week.
Week of Septmber 6 for 206, 207, and 208:
World’s Hardest Test –Kenn Nesbitt
Preparing today for the standardized test
our teacher said there was a lot to digest.
We’d have to divide by the square root of three
and learn to spell zygote, façade and marquis.
We’d need to play xylophone, trumpet and flute,
accordion, banjo, piano and lute,
recite all the capital cities by heart
and learn to take rocketship engines apart.
We’d have to speak Latin, Swahili and Greek,
learn nuclear fusion and fencing technique,
remember the fables of Persia and Rome
and crack all the codes in the human genome.
Then just when we thought that our heads might explode
from learning Chinese or dissecting a toad
she told us the very best thing she could say:
that she was just kidding; it’s April Fool’s Day.
These poems make great journal entries! Start looking for your favorite poems by famous authors... Lately we've been reading the poetry of Kenn Nesbitt. Check out more of his poetry by clicking the link here. Giggle Poetry
We will practice identifying and writing the following types of figurartive language. Click on the links below for practice!
1. alliteration
2. onomatopoeia
3. simile
4. metaphor
5. personification
6. assonance
Figurative Language Jeopardy
Literary Terms Practice
Onomatopoeia Practice
Idiom game
More Idiom Practice
Some Common Idioms and Their Meanings
Common Idioms
List of Idioms
Idiom Dictionary
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Here is a free flashcard maker sight that you might want to use to learn the words. Click the link below.
Quizlet
Abra Vocabra Word List One
1. annual
2. grotesque
3. gawk
4. obese
5. toxic
6. blunder
7. bicker
8. brutal
9. feline
10. tyrant
B1. dumbfounded
B2. waiver
Coming Attraction: Cliche_List
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Working on a poem? Check out this Online Rhyming Dictionary or Another Rhyming Dictionary
Can't think of anything to write about during W.W.? Click below for lots of ideas. I'm sure many of the topics and assignments will suit you. Writers' Workshop Ideas
Get Published this Year!
Would you like to see your name in print? And know that people all over the world are reading your words? It's really quite easy to publish a book review. You must attempt publication at least once this school year, and here are some sites that are looking for your reviews:
BookHooks
CPL book reviews
Kid Lit
On-Lion for Kids
Scholastic
Want ideas for publishing?
Click here to make your own mini book! Stapleless book
Click here to create a comic Comic Creator
Click here to try your hand at an Acrostic Poem
And go to Read Write Think for many, many other ideas to help you with the writing and publishing processes
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