Medea Creek Middle School: 7Th Humanities

Medea Creek Middle School: 7th Humanities

Week 2: Quarter 1: 8-17-15 to 8-21-15

LANGUAGE ARTS: / SOCIAL STUDIES: / STANDARD: / HOMEWORK:
Mon.
8/17 / Short Stories:
·  Intro CONFLICT and PLOT in literature
·  Start reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” / Introduction to Close Reading and
Annotation
Conflict Creates Change:
·  “We Are Refugees” / LA: Q1 AR Book & Form Due Fri.
SS: Continue “We are Refugees”
Read/highlight/annotate
SS: Parent and Student Surveys
Tues.
8/18 / Short Stories:
·  Finish reading “Sheila Mant”
·  Discuss conflicts in story
·  Discuss THEME
·  Fill in plot diagram for story
·  Explain “You-er than You” Collage -due Friday, 8/21 / Parent/Student Surveys due today
Conflict Creates Change:
·  “We are Refugees” complete / CCSS R 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. / LA: Q1 AR Book & Form Due Fri.
LA: Finish plot diagram
LA: Complete Analysis Questions
LA: YOU Collage due Friday,
SS: None
Wed.
8/19 / Short Stories:
·  Check plot diagrams and Questions
·  Introduce signposts
·  Complete signpost log for “Sheila Mant” / Conflict Creates Change:
Reading Like a Historian
·  Sourcing: The Lunchroom fight / CCSS R 2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. / LA: Q1 AR Book & Form Due Fri.
LA: Finish signpost log
SS: Finish Sourcing activities
Thurs
8/20 / Short Stories:
·  Check signpost logs
·  Discuss Response to Literature Paragraph format
·  Complete paragraph as a class / Conflict Creates Change:
Reading Like a Historian
·  Contextualizing: The Lunchroom fight / CCSS R 1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support 1. analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. / LA: Q1 AR Book & Form Due tomorrow
SS: Finish Contextualizing activities
Fri.
8/21 / Accelerated Reader:
·  Check-in Q1 AR books and forms
Short Stories:
·  Write new RtL paragraph independently with different quote
·  Turn in packets / Conflict Creates Change:
Reading Like a Historian
·  Corroboration: The Lunchroom Fight
·  Reflection / CCSS R 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. / LA: Read AR
SS: None
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS:
1.  Be sure to use your planner and weekly schedule.
2.  Plan your work! Work your plan!
3.  Use study & learning strategies for success!
4.  Be organized! / QUOTE TO PONDER:
“The highest result of education is tolerance” –Helen Keller / REMINDERS:
*9/7: No school
*9/14: No school
*9/23: No school / TESTS/ DUE DATES:
- Skills I Work Due: 10/1
-  Q1 AR Deadline: 10/8
-  Skills II Test: 10/9