March 23, 2018

Warm-Up	From the Wave narrative: Write a first-person narrative describing what it is like to surf, based on details in the poem. What are your thoughts as the wave mounts? What images do you notice? Write your story with enough detail that the reader can visualize the surfing experience.	W7.3- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Mini-Lesson	Giving and responding to comments and feedback. How do you respond to someone you disagree with in a respectful manner?
Work Time	Editorial Groups - Share your editorial with your group - Read and give feedback on writing
Homework

March 22, 2018

Warm-Up	From the Wave narrative: Write a first-person narrative describing what it is like to surf, based on details in the poem. What are your thoughts as the wave mounts? What images do you notice? Write your story with enough detail that the reader can visualize the surfing experience. March Madness Voting!	W7.3- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Mini-Lesson	Let's grade some examples! How do you think the students did on their editorials?
Work Time	Editorial Revisions Editorial Checklist	W 7.4- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Homework	Final Editorial- due at the beginning of class on Friday!

March 21, 2018

Warm-Up	- Please complete the Unit 6 Book Choice form in Google Classroom. - Turn in your homework from last night! Your homework was the reflection page. - Read the text "Opinion: Women in the Football Booth is a Long Time Coming." Answer the questions that follow!
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Rubric/ Checklist
Work Time	Editorial Revisions	W 7.5- With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
Homework	Final Editorial- due at the beginning of class on Friday!

March 20, 2018

Warm-Up	Answer the multiple choice questions for From the Wave. Once you have finished, please turn in your assignment to the basket. You do not need to do the narrative!	RL7.5- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Peer Feedback- How to give editorial peer feedback
Work Time	Editorial Peer Feedback	W 7.5- With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
Homework	Revision Goals- due at the beginning of class tomorrow!

March 19, 2018

Warm-Up	Please pick up a copy of From the Wave. You can find this on the back reading table. Read and annotate From the Wave. After you have read the poem, please answer questions 1-3.	RL7.5- Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Rubric Editorial Checklist
Work Time	Editorial Rough Draft	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Homework	Editorial Draft- due at the beginning of class tomorrow!

March 16, 2018

Warm-Up	Answer question #4 for Before the Lights Go Out.	RI 7.5- Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Examples Ediorial Rubric
Work Time	Editorial Draft	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. W 7.1a- Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Homework	Have a great weekend!

March 15, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate Before the Lights Go Out. Please answer multiple choice questions 1-3.	RI 7.5- Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Draft Planning for your editorial Editorial Examples
Work Time	Editorial Plan Editorial Rough Draft	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. W 7.1a- Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Homework	Editorial Plan- due TOMORROW (at the beginning of class).

March 14, 2018

Warm-Up	Pi Day Writing Prompt- Please take out a piece of paper! You will be writing a story using the numbers in Pi For example, the first word in your story needs to be three letters. The second word in your story needs to be one letter, third word will be four letters, etc. Your story word length should follow the numbers in Pi.
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Research
Work Time	Editorial Research	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. W 7.7- Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Homework	Editorial Research- due at the beginning of class tomorrow!

March 13, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate A Generational Challenge to Re-power America. Answer the questions that follow.	RI 7.8
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Research- Expanding your research
Work Time	- Editorial Research - Editorial Examples	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. W 7.7- Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Homework	Editorial Research- Due Thursday (beginning of class)

March 12, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate The Discovery of DNA's Structure.	RI 7.5- Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Mini-Lesson	Editorial Characteristics Assessment Overview
Work Time	- Editorial Research - Editorial Examples/ Characteristics - Editorial Topic Selection	W 7.1- Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. W 7.7- Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
Homework	Your editorial topic is due tomorrow!

March 9, 2018

Warm-Up	Should Your City Host the Olympics?	RI 7.6- Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Mini-Lesson	Grade your prompt! What do you need to revise/ edit?
Work Time	The Terrible Things vs. Child of the Holocaust	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	Have a great weekend!

March 8, 2018

Warm-Up	Answer Question #3 for the text Realistic Environmentalism.	RI 7.6- Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Mini-Lesson	Student Examples of The Terrible Things and Child of the Holocaust.
Work Time	The Terrible Things vs. Child of the Holocaust	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	The Terrible Things Writing Response- due at the END of class tomorrow!

March 7, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate Realistic Environmentalism. Answer the questions that follow.	RI 7.6- Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Mini-Lesson	Writing Prompt- What is the prompt asking? Rubric
Work Time	The Terrible Things vs. Child of the Holocaust	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	Terrible Things Writing Response- work on your response for 20 minutes tonight!

March 6, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate Not Recycling? What's Your Excuse? Answer the questions that follow.	RI 7.6- Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Mini-Lesson	The Terrible Things and Child of the Holocaust Graphic Organizer/ Writing Prompt.
Work Time	The Terrible Things vs. Child of the Holocaust	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	Pick your evidence for The Terrible Things and Child of the Holocaust. You need to have your evidence for our lesson tomorrow!

March 5, 2018

Warm-Up	Finish Question #3 for Some Simple Water Science and Water for the World. Review feedback for Santorio Santorio and the Thermometer.	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Mini-Lesson	The Terrible Things- How did Eve Bunting shape her presentation? What key information did she present?
Work Time	The Terrible Things	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	The Terrible Things Question- due tomorrow!

March 2, 2018

Warm-Up	Read and annotate Some Simple Water Science and Water for the World. Answer the multiple choice questions that follow.	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Mini-Lesson	Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Work Time	The Terrible Things and Child of the Holocaust	RI 7.9- Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.
Homework	No Homework! Have a great weekend!

March 1, 2018

Warm-Up	Finish you writing prompt for Santorio Santorio and the Thermometer. *Please turn your writing prompt into the basket once you have finished!
Mini-Lesson	Compare/Contrast Reminders Review Rubric
Work Time	Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center- Speech by John F. Kennedy	W 7.2- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. RI 7.7- Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium's portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).
Homework	Finish your narrative for Endymion Spring. Remember, set a timer for 20 minutes!