Transcript Lesson Plans Week 27 M. Unser

Lesson Plans
Week 5
M. Unser
English Grade 7 Plus
September 29-October 3, 2014
Monday, September 29
• Warm-Up/ Housekeeping/ Roll Call
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7.1 TSW participate in and contribute to group discussions
7.4 TSW read to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
7.6 Use text features to make predictions and enhance comprehension
• Week 2 Day 2 Vocabulary Worksheet
• Present Pictures from Biographies
• Read Biographies
– Eleanor Roosevelt to page 75
– Harry Houdini to page 76
– Complete analysis of text features (checklist)
Tuesday Warm-Up!
Define “analogy” in your own
words
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
• Warm-Up/ Housekeeping/ Roll Call
7.1 TSW participate in and contribute to group discussions
7.4 TSW read to determine meaning of unfamiliar words: identify and analyze
figurative language; identify connotations
• Present “Picture Walk” Projects
Wednesday Warm-Up
Tri Bond Challenge:
What one word connects the following sets
of words?
Sweat, Squeal, Bleed
Balls, Hair, Tigger
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
• Warm-Up/ Housekeeping/ Roll Call
7.1 TSW participate in and contribute to group discussions
7.7 TSW write in a variety of forms with an emphasis on exposition,
narration, and persuasion
• Writer’s Workshop
– Mini-Lesson: punctuation of dialogue
– Continue with writing OR
– Start a new piece
– Sustained Writing
– Conference and Share
Thursday Warm-Up
Read the poem Martin Luther King by
Raymond Patterson on page 670 of the
literature book aloud to someone at your
table.
Paraphrase lines 1 and 2 in your warm-up
notebook
Thursday, October 2, 2014
• Warm-Up/ Housekeeping/ Roll Call
7.1 TSW participate in and contribute to group discussions
7.7 TSW write in a variety of forms with an emphasis on exposition,
narration, and persuasion
• Week 2 Day 3 Vocabulary Worksheet
• Poll: Hunger Games, Out of the Dust, Second
Biography, Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Read Biographies
– Eleanor Roosevelt to page 75
– Harry Houdini to page 76
• Visit the library
– check out books
– Read!
Thursday Warm-Up
Tri Bond Challenge:
What one word connects the following sets
of words?
• Tax, Hitch, Nature
• Frost, Snake, Over
Friday, October 3, 2014
• Warm-Up/ Housekeeping/ Roll Call
7.1 TSW participate in and contribute to group discussions
7.4 TSW read to determine meaning of unfamiliar words
7.5 TSW read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts
• Week 2: Day 4 Vocabulary
• Read Biographies
– Eleanor Roosevelt to end
– Harry Houdini to end
• Writers Workshop when finished