Week 4

This week WE GO HEAD TO HEAD with another 7th grade class in a "What Really Happened in The Elevator" short story ending.

FOCUS:  Annotating non-fiction text and finding main ideas and supporting details
FOCUS:  Finding an authors claim
FOCUS:  Evaluating an authors claim for validity

Monday

• ENTRY:  What is one book or movie that that setting played a large role in the plot?  Explain. 
• Read short story, "The Elevator" while annotating for character and plot

Here is a link to the story   The Elevator

• Craft an ending to the story (to be used in the competition)

HOMEWORK:  INFERENCE #1  and if you want to challenge yourself, GIFT O MAGI INFERENCE PAGE

Tuesday

• ENTRY:  What text evidence did the author use to show that Martin is not a confrontational person who is not secure in himself?  Note what paragraphs you found the evidence in. 
• Computer Lab-students will have a chance to explore their e-books and complete a who, what, when, why, and how chart on a non-fiction article of their choice.  
• Independent Reading time.  

HOMEWORK:  INFERENCE #2 AND CHALLENGE:  USING INFERENCE IN WRITING

Wednesday

• ENTRY:  Focus on Latin.  What is mar, nav, ology, er, or, and bio
• CONTEST!!!  We will head over to Mr. K's classroom and read their Elevator endings and vote.  They will be in our room reading ours.
  

• Claim mini lesson
• Read 2 short stories on a teen sailor

HOMEWORK:  WHY I HATE FACEBOOK (AUTHOR'S CLAIM)

Thursday

• ENTRY:  Review-List and define the elements of plot.  
• We will learn how to annotate news stories.  "Was Abby too Young?"  
• Independent Reading
• Extend and Review-Students will be given time to review concepts that they have been struggling with and will work with me in small groups.  Students who are at mastery will have a chance to extend their learning with higher level texts. 

HOMEWORK:  Read and annotate 2 stories on Teen Sailor and complete attached charts (5W's1H) and fact vs. opinion.  **Just pick 1 story for Thursday and 1 for Friday.  DUE MONDAY

Friday

• ENTRY:  Read paragraph and make an inference using text based thinking.
• SBAC-we will walk through a performance task (what they complete at the end of the year as their state-based assessment).  We will not get through the entire process, but we will continue next Friday.
• LIBRARY-Don't forget to bring your books back and exchange for new books!

HOMEWORK:  Complete Teen Sailor work