Parents,
The assignments are displayed on the board and left there for the grading
period. When a student misses a day, it is easy to see which
which assignment needs to be completed. All assignments that are currently on this web site are also
copied and are hung on the board. All students may use the paper copy to
copy assignments needed. Reader textbooks may also be checked out at any
time. Please see that these books are returned as soon as assignments are
made up or a test has been studied for and taken.
March 26--30
Mar.26 Review V#6 all review words
Make-up assignments
Read/discuss Changing of the Shrew 270 -281
Metaphor worksheet 7.4D
Mar.27 Review V#6
Bell Ringe #6
Complete story from Monday's assignment
Worksheet page 283
Mar.28 Review V#6
Bell Ringer
Literary Elements Test
Disect the test on paper
Mar. 29 V# 6 test 1-5 give examples 6-10 give definitions
Bell Ringer
Review test disecting answers
Worksheet 7.4B
Mar.30 I have/Who has with SOL vocabulary
Bell Ringer turn in completed paper
VA Student Achievement Test
April 2 Complete test/Go over test
Student disects test
April 3 Complete disecting of test
Go over orally
V# 6
1.metaphor 2.alliteration 3.simile
4.onomatopoeia 5.personification
6.theme 7.setting 8.tone
9.dialogue 10.analogy
V#5
1.hemisphere:area that lies within a specific half-section of earth
2.horizon:line where the sky seems to meet the earth
3.degree(s):one 360th part of the circumference of a circle
4.essentially:basically
5.hemi-:half
6.tele-:far off
7.-ly:in a manner or direction
8.-ness:state or quality of being
9. affix:prefix/suffix
10.captions:describe visuals
March19-23
Monday 19 Review V#5
Read/discuss pages 292-297
Worksheet over story (answered in sentences)
Tue.20 Review V#5
Bell Ringer
Complete worksheet page 299
Read/discuss How to Stay Fit for Life pages 338-341
Wed. 21 Review V#5
Bell Ringer
Recap story/Worksheet page 343
Thur. 22 V#5 Test Date changed because I didn't get words here earlier)
Complete worksheet
READING NIGHT
Fri.23 Copy/define V#6
1.resistance: movement to oppose governing power
2.ruthless:cruel
3.excavations: things or places unearthed by exploratory digging
Others will be added later
Read/discuss 344
Check study guides completed last week
March 12-16
Mon.12 Review V#4 (SOL words)
Bell Ringer
Complete Story Map
Test to gage progress
Tues.13 Review V#4
Bell Ringer
Begin a personal study guide for SOL Test
Wed.14 Review V#4
Bell Ringer
Study guide
Thurs.15 Bell Ringer
Review V#4
Study guide
Fri.16 V#4 test (not matching)
Bell Ringer turn in paper for a grade
Copy/difine V#5
V#4
1.static character: does not change during the story
2.hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
3.limerick: a funny 5 line poem
4.objective writing:writer presents just the facts and figures
5.subjective writing:the author shares his/her own feelings,thoughts, and opinions
6.onomatopeia: use of words with sounds that echo what they mean
7.personification:giving human qualities to nonhuman things
8.refrain: groups of words repeated at intervals in a poem
9.sonnet: a poem of 14 lines usually with 10 syllables each
10.motifs: common features of folk tales (magic, heroism)
Define V#5
March 5 - 9
Monday - No School
Tuesday 6 Review V#3
Complete Hoaz Hysteria Worksheet
Make-up assignments
Wed. 7 Bell Ringer 3
Review V #3
Read Understanding Dyslexia
SOL Worksheet-summarize
Thurs. 8 Bell Ringer
Riverw V #3
Read: The Princess and the Amphibian
Create a Character Web/summarize
Fri. 9 Bell Ringre (Turn in paper for a grade)
V3# test over Review SOL words
Copy/define V#4
V#3
1. synonym 2. literal language 3. idiom 4. word analogy 5. prefix 6. metaphor
7. figurative language 8. context clues 9. suffix 10. simile
V#2 test over #1-5 Wed.; #6-10 Friday
1.author's purpose 2.main idea 3.opinion 4.summarige 5.prediction
6.inference 7.resolution 8.initial event 9.setting 10.climax
Feb.27-March 2
Mon.27 Review V#2
Bell Ringer #2
Read: Giving Back
SOL Worksheet
Tues.28 Review V#2
Bell Ringer
Read: Hoax Hysteria
SOL Worksheet
Wed.29 V#2 test #1-5
Review V#2 #6-10
Bell Ringer
Read: The Unknown Stars of Baseball
Thurs.1 Review V#2 #6-10
Bell Ringer turn in paper
Review srory/ SOL Workheet
Fri.2 V#2 test
Coy/define V#3
Read: Understanding Dyslexia (did not get to do)
SOL Worksheet
Feb.21-24
This week's vocabulary are review words except for numbers 1 and 6.theme
The fourth grading period has ended. Make-up work must be completed by Wed.
evening.
V#1 test Thurs. #1-5; test Friday #6-10
1.thesaurus 2.antonyms 3.synonyms 4.suffix 5.context clues
6.sequence 7.theme 8.base word 9.prefix 10.dynamic character
Tues. 21 School is on a 2 hour delay schedule
Review V#1
Make-u assignments
Begin Benchmark practice Test
Wed.22 Review V#1
Bell Ringer #1 (analogies)
Complete Benchmark test
Review SOL terms
Thurs.23 Bell ringer - turn in paper
Review V#1 Test #1-5
SOL Worksheet (Affixes)
Read A Need for Green
Fri.24 V#1 test #6-10
Review Thurs. story /worksheet (identifying author's purpose)
Copy/define V#2
Feb. 13-17
Mon.13 School is on a 2 hour delay schedule
Review Vocab. test on the 16th and 17th - these are all SOL words
NOT MATCHING these are from memory (classes
will test Thurs.16th on words 1-5; Fri. #6-10)
Listen to Barrio Boy then do Reading Check page 505 using
sentences in cursive
Tues.14 Review V#4
BR#2 Analogies #1-4
Story test over Barrio Boy
Wed.15 Review V#4
BR#2 next 4
Read/discuss 527
Read/discuss story Fish Cheeks
Thurs.16 Review V#4
BR#4 next 4
Vocab. test #1-5 words
Copy/define words for next week
Fri.17 Review test words
Vocab. test words #6-10
BR#2 next 4 take up papers for grade
Go over Vocab. that was copied on Thurs.
Read/discuss page 533
V#5 words are on the SOL Vocabulary sheet I handed out earlier
1.essay 2.novella 3.novel 4.effect 5.fact 6.fiction 7.glossary
8.hyperbole 9.internal conflict 10.inference
Feb. 6 - 10
Feb.6 Revise V#3
Make-up and Do Over assignments
Begin Barrio Boy
Feb.7 Review V#3
Read/discuss Barrio Boy
Page 506 Clarifying word meanings
Analogy Introduction
Feb.8 Bell Ringer 1 #1-4
Review V#3
Page 507 Practice
Feb.9 Bell ringer 1 #5-8
Vocabulary #3 Matching test and 2 words from memory
Questions over Barrio Boy
Feb.10 Bell Ringer 1 #9-12
V#3 Review
Barrio Boyquestions
Copy/define V#4
Jan.30-Feb..3
Jan.30 Review Vocab. #2 (matching and use in sentences)
Read/discuss pages 484-493
Jan.31 Review V #2
Complete story
Thinking critically questions (orally)
Reading Check (use complete sentences)
Feb.1 Review V #2
Complete Reading Check
Page 495 (bottom) Practice
Feb.2 Review V #2
Read/discuss pages 496-497 (Block Method)
Test over story
Feb.3 V#2 test
Copy/define V#3
Vocabulary #2 Test Feb.3,2012
1.hook: in boxing, a sharp blow made with the arm bent at the elbow
2.ban: an official order forbidding something
3.controversy: a disagreement over a serious matter that goes on for
a long time
4.slurred: spoken in an unclear way
5.instills: puts an idea into someone's mind in a slow but sure way
6.bouts: matches; contests
7.pensively: thoughtfully
8.torrent: flood or rush
9.dispelled: driven away
10.frenzied: wild
VOCAB. #3
1.Reassuring:comforting
2.contraption: strange machine or gadget
3.assured: promised confidently
4.formidable: impressive
5.barrio: a neighborhood where most o the people speak Spanish
6.contrast: tell how things are different
7.compare: look for ways things are alike
8.gringo: in Latin America, an insulting term for "foreigner"
9.immigrant: a person who comes to a country to live
10.obnoxious: very disagreeable and hateful
FROM MEMORY
1.external conflict: problem between a person and an outside force
2.prose: everything that isn't poetry
.essay:a short piece of prose that discusses a limited topic
.novella: a short novrl between 21-99 pages long/short
.novel: a fiction story of 100 or more pages
Jan.23-27
Jan.23 Bargain story test
Bargain vocabulary test (matching)
Period 2 only: Reread 186-188 Questions page 190
Everyone:copy/define new vocabulary words
Vocabulary
1.banish: make something go away
2.dreary:damp and gloomy
3.bog: wet place for growing things
4.bore:gave birth to(fruit on a tree)
5.harmonious:things(usually colors) that go well together
6.pride:be happy with an accomplishment
7.thanksgiving:giving thanks
Not matching
8.omnipotent:all knowing
9.docile:easily taught
10.stanza: units of lines in a poem
Jan.24 Review Vocabulary
Read/discuss The Last Dinosaur
I'm Nobody pages 548-549
Questions page 550
Jan.25 Review vocabulary
Read/discuss I Like To See It Lap The Miles
I Am of the Earth and Early Song
Questions page 559
Jan.26 Review Vocabulary
Test over the poems read this week(with vocabulary)
Copy Vocab. for next week NOT MATCHING : SOL WORDS
1.simile:comparing, using like or as
2.metaphor:comparing not using like or as
3.extended metaphor:a metaphor that may take several lines or an
entire poem to develop
4.personification: giving human qualities to non-human things
5.tone:the way a writer feels about a subject
6.paraphrase: put something you have read or heard in your own words
7.imagery:language that appeals to the 5 senses
8.lyric poem:expresses an emotion
9.narrative poem:tells a story
10.sonnet: a lyric poem of 14 lines
Jan.27 Review Vocabulary
Read/discuss Madam and the Rent Man Questions page 562
Harlem Night Song and Winter Moon Questions page 567
I Ask My Mother to Sing Questions page 571
Jan.16-20
Jan.16 Mirror work sheet
Make-up any assignments for the week by Thursday. Come in
before or after school-7th grade teachers are on duty
during break, and you need to be in your 3rd. period class.
Review Vocab. #1(words needed for Thurs. Worksheets)
1.transformed:changed
2.spirit:powerful soul
3.dread:fear
4.desire:wish
5.timidly:shyly
6.influencing:persuading
7.advertisements:messages that try to persuade others to
buy a product
8-12 will be the words from the mirror story
Begin Yeh-Shen story
Jan.17 Review V#
Read/discuss Yeh-Shen (omniscient point of view)
Thinking Critically questions page 388 (orally if class
takes part in the discussion)
Jan.18 Review V#1
Reading check using complete sentences-will count as a story test
Work sheets-V#1 words will be tested here
Jan.19 Copy vocabulary needed for story test
1.appreciate:think well of
2.ferocious:very great: fierce: savage
3.despite:in defiance of
4.content:satisfied
5.tri:(affix)having three
6.in:(affix)not; without
7.anti:(affix)against; opposite
8.vignette: a literary sketch that is often no longer than a page
(usually doesn't have a plot)
Read/discuss pages 184-185 in paperback book
Jan.20 Review vocabulary words
Read/discuss pages 186-188
Page 189 orally
Page 190 on paper (Vocabulary and Comprehension)
Re-copy or review Vocabulary referred to on Jan.5 plans
buckboard, freighter, etc.
Jan.3-6
Jan.5 (or 1st day back)
Save the Vocab. words that were written before Christmas, you
will need them later.
Make-up work I will put final grades on Power School during
3rd period Wed.
Collect graded papers to be taken home
Jan.6 Read/discuss Bats pages 191-193
Page 194 on paper
Page 195 answered in complete sentences
Jan.9 Complete page 195
Read/discuss pages 175-176
Page 178 answered in complete sentences
Know Vocab. for Thursday
Copy Vocabulary words (define)
1.perspective:the way we look at a subject
2.pseudonym:pen name or made up name
3.sophistication:seem worldly-wise
4.roots:family ties
5.memorable:able to recall
Jan.10 Read/discuss pages 179-182
Page 183 answered in complete sentences
Review Vocab. words
Copy/define for Friday
1.insecure:not feeling safe or confident
2.illusion:the appearance of something that makes one see
it in a false way
3.statistics:data presented in number form
4.self-esteem:belief in oneself
5.interview:meeting in which one person asks another questions
his/her opinions, activities, or experiences
Jan.11 Read/discuss 364-365
Page 369 top
Review 364-365
Work sheet over material read also page 369(bottom)
Jan.12 Read/discuss pages 389-391
Questions page 392
SOL words.
1.alliteration 2.analogy 3.antonyms 4. ballad 5.basic situation
6.dialogue 7.dynamic character 8.escape story 9.external conflict 10.fact
1.theme:what the author wants you to learn aout life
2.simile: comparing using words such as like or as
3.cause: makes something happen
4.metaphor: comparing not using like or as
5.effect:what happens as a result of a cause
6.repetition: repeating of words to create an emotional effect
7.dialect:a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or
group of people
8.irony:a contrast between expectation and reality
9.free verse:poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
10.imagery: language that appeals to the senses
11.character:a person or animal in a story, play, or other literary work
12.inference:a conclusion based on facts
13.contrast:to explain the differences in events or characters
14.effect:what happens as a result of a cause
15.cause:makes the event happen