Welcome to
Caveman Core 7
for our Seventh Grade English Team
History Cohort
Master Dept Schedule
Term 1 2011
Term 1 Begins
ParentLetter_ELA_CCSS.pdf
“It is counterproductive, if not unethical, to teach toward one specific target of learning and grade learners on another” (p.38, George Hillocks, Teaching Writing Argument).
Seventh Grade
Language Arts/English Class
Ms. Dorsey
Term 1 Can you. . . ?
- correctly use end punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation marks) on the sentences you write?
- correctly capitalize the beginning of each sentence and capitalize proper nouns (names of specific people, places, or things)?
- correctly spell words and names you need to use in seventh grade, including seventh grade commonly confused words and the names of your teachers, principals, and school counselor?
- write a complete paragraph with a beginning, middle, and end, and transitions?
- support what you’re saying or writing with evidence (details)?
- read novels and short stories and identify and discuss plot structure.
- participate effectively in whole-class and small group discussions, activities, and projects?
- write complete and varied sentences?
- correctly use commas when listing three or more things within a sentence (commas in a series)?
- summarize literary and informational text
By the end of Term 1, the expectation is that you will master the bolded skills and understandings.
Essays: Neat People. . . http://evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2005/11/neat-people-vs-sloppy-people.html
Teaching Using Sources -- Teaching when to use Atlases, Dictionaries, etc.
Collaboration
Poems -- from Julie -- Ellie: An Inventory of Being
http://www.amimckay.com/writing/ellie.htm Edit
http://podbaydoor.com/?p=661
Brainstorming activity -- house with four boxes for rooms
It's raining -- you work from the top down
hook in roof
Thesis statement
1st body
2nd body
3rd body
Counterargument
Conclusion
1st body
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2nd body
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3rd body
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Counterargument
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Core Review --
kleenex box with ping-pong-balls
tickets in a bag -- minute to win-it
winning team gets to add 2 extra credit points to quiz on the topic
belt taped end punctuation
Get all the end punctuation out before the other team does
worksheet
prefixes and suffixes on plastic Easter Eggs -- colors mixed - definitions/prefix or suffix
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study guide
commonly confused words review
test -- scantron
Student Suggestion for reading class:
6. What else would you like to tell me?
I think that it would be cool if some days you read to us instead of us reading to our self I think it would
be cool and easy to learn more about expression Morgan O.
Teach the reading strategies more thoroughly.
Quoting Students
Quotes for poetic devices: http://www.jaguared.com/catalog/viewphotos.aspx?pid=942
http://hubpages.com/hub/simile-and-metaphors
comparison/contrast lesson: http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/lessonplans/organizational-patterns-comparison-and-contrast-writing
the O-Zone -- For students who get O's for citizenship.
Workshop: make room for discussing ideas! (not disgusting ideas!)
When we do the activities we do with novels, are they making students better readers?
Books and other media to consider
Discussion of writing workshop:
http://englishcompanion.ning.com/group/teachingwriting/forum/topic/show?id=2567740%3ATopic%3A114561
Teacher wiki -- genre -- create a continuum for students to sort genres for nearness to reality - could debate
warrant, claim
Lexile levels
950 to 1025 is At Grade Level, Proficient, Norm 49-62%950 to 1025 is At Grade Level, Proficient, Norm 49-62%
Below 550 is Below Grade Level, At Risk, Norm 1-6%
550 to 750 is Below Grade Level, Basic 1, Norm 6-21%
750 to 850 is Below Grade Level, Basic 2, Norm 21-34%
850 to 950 is At Grade Level, Low Proficient, Norm 34-49%
950 to 1025 is At Grade Level, Proficient, Norm 49-62%
1025 to 1100 is At Grade Level, High Proficient, Norm 62-76%
1100 and above is Above Grade Level, Norm 76% and above
Dorsey's Schedule -- Fall Semester of 2010/2011
A-Day All Seventh Grade English
B-Day Creative Writing/Prep; Reading class; Reading class/Creative Writing; Prep/Creative Writing
Second Semester 2011
A-Day All English
B-Day
B1 = Prep
B2 = Reading
B3 = Creative Writing
B4 = Creative Writing
Request for computer days for Reading and Creative Writing --
I'm looking at the school calendar.
Could I please reserve --
B2. B3, B4
Lab 223 for January 24 or lab 201 if up and running well
Lab 223 for February 1 or lab 201 if up and running well
Lab 223 for February 8 or lab 201 if up and running well
Lab 223 for February 11 or lab 201 if up and running well
Lab 223 for February 17 or lab 201 if up and running well
Lab 223 for February 22 (Underwood in 201) (End of Reading Rotation Feb. 28)
B2. B3, B4
Lab 223 or 201 for March 8
Lab 223 or 201 for March 15
Lab 223 or 201 for March 21
Lab 223 or 201 for March 23
Lab 223 or 201 for March 29
Lab 223 or 201 for April 4 (End of Reading Rotation is April 8)
B2, B3, B4 (I realize that at this point things may get difficult with CRT, etc. testing. I'd appreciate your help to work out times especially for my B2 Reading 7 class. Thanks!)
Lab 223 or 201 for April 27
Lab 223 or 201 for May 5
Lab 223 or 201 for May 11
Lab 223 or 201 for May 19
Lab 223 or 201 for May 23
Lab 223 or 201 for May 25
Will students be able to save to their student folders from Lab 201?
Also, I don't know if Lisa Peet has talked with you about this yet, but we're planning on the Young Writer's Conference for March 31 in the Media Center.
Thank you so much! Let me know whether this works.
Claudia
B-Day
Creative Writing
Reading 7
Reading 7
Prep.
A-Day
English 7
English 7
English 7
English 7
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=afjh@alpinedistrict.org&ctz=America/Denver&gsessionid=OK
Hoaxes that people believed http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/04/5410269-unicorn-meat-and-bonsai-kittens
Prof Development November 1, 2010
autism --
| [C20: from Greek autos self + -ism ] |
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| usage Rather than talking about an autistic or autistics , it is better to use phrases such as a person with autism and people with autism |
from dictionary.com quoting the World English Dictionary
creating a paragraph
Grade change for Sean Palmer -- +20 Make up D- 61%
contracts for make-up for Term 1
John Sia A4
Sergio A2?
Ammacie
End of term concerns -- term 1 -- Dorsey
Mallerie Brooksby -- many, absent
Jensen, Saberdee -- composition book
Gillett, Shaun -- New October 21
A3 Commonly confused Words -- Tony Rasmussen and A.J. Davis -- Have you even taken this?
Check Tony's reading minute -- is it in this term? Has he missed it? Otherwise take points from extra credit column.
Vest -- cheating at http://www.helium.com/items/1942733-character-analysis-peeta-mellark-of-the-hunger-games-trilogy-by-suzanne-collins
Idea for English classes -- start a wiki called "Could-Reads" to which the students contribute.
Gallagher Handouts
English 7 Sort and Plan
Reading Minute
Index of Everyday Editing Lessons
Counselor Assignments
A-Do Adele Whiteley
Dr-Ke Cody Thompson
Kh-Re Laura Bartlett
Rh-S Melissa Nielson
T-Z Braden Walker
School Nurse -- Laurel Apgood -- lapgood@alpine.k12.ut.us
Barratt-Mondays
Highland-Tuesdays
Legacy-Wednesdays
Greenwood-Thursdays
AFHS/AFJH-Fridays, every other week
Creative Writing
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Reading 7
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English
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headlines -- example
breakfast cereal and napkins Alphabet
poem from 100 Q -- writing on size to fit comp books -- cut half sheets
disclosure
me bag example ?
something to read -- an example
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book pass
testing/surveys
reading logs
disclosure
___________________________
Parent volunteers
Reading logs
Online assignment
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overheads for editing
disclosure
Media center tour 1st half
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Outsiders
interviews
book orders
birthdays
everyday editing
reading minute
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sub packets
test for nurse - e-mail?
Mockingjay pin
books covered
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word error who's for whose In an article on KSL.com http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=12035350
August 23 riddle: All the words were homonyms and what he thought were the same words from the other school were really the "other" version. Like cell in one school and sell in the other.
homophones --
Cleary's answer: Gray, favor, favorite, colour. Yep. It took me longer to make up the riddle than it did for any of you to solve it!
—Synonyms
1, 2, 3. Homonym, homophone, and homograph designate words that are identical to other words in spelling or pronunciation, or both, while differing from them in meaning and usually in origin. Homophones are words that sound alike, whether or not they are spelled differently. The words pear “fruit,” pare “cut off,” and pair “two of a kind” are homophones that are different in spelling; bear “carry; support” and bear “animal” are homophones that are spelled alike. Homographs are words that are spelled identically but may or may not share a pronunciation. Spruce “tree” and spruce “neat” are homographs, but so are row /roʊ/ 
Show Spelled[roh] Show IPA “line” and row /raʊ/[rou] “fight” as well as sewer /ˈsu
ər/[soo-er] “conduit for waste” and sewer /ˈsoʊər/[soh-er] “person who sews.” Homonyms are, in the strictest sense, both homophones and homographs, alike in spelling and pronunciation, as the two forms bear. Homonym, however, is used more frequently than homophone, a technical term, when referring to words with the same pronunciation without regard to spelling. Homonym is also used as a synonym of homograph. Thus, it has taken on a broader scope than either of the other two terms and is often the term of choice in a nontechnical context.
tickets? drawings? gum? candy?
Need 2 more desks. Have 36?
index paper
take
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permission for movie clips
permission for pictures on blog? check on policy
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2010-2011
District Calendar: http://www.alpine.k12.ut.us/publicComponents/newsletters/District%20Documents-10-11%20ABwordfinal.pdf
Core curriculum: http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/core/corepdf/LA7-12.pdf
Skyward: https://skyward.alpinedistrict.org/scripts/wsisa.dll/WService=wsEAplus/seplog01
Utah English Teachers Ning http://utah7-12la.ning.com/
The Help
http://www.brianpcleary.com/ Word Nerd
http://www.soundslikereading.com/ phonics for small children
From his facebook page:
Perhaps one of the coolest coined words of the 20th century is "astronaut", which means literally "star sailor".
Paparazzi (not the Lady Gaga song) was brought into our conversational vernacular with the popularity of the 1960 Italian film, La Dolce Vita. The director, Fellini, took the name from a word from an Italian dialect describing a buzzing mosquito. Paparazzi is plural. An individual is a paparazzo (which is the last name of the photographer in the film).
Verbalicious Trivia: TYPEWRITER is the longest English word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard (or typewriter!). As far as I can tell EQUITY would be second, followed by a bunch of 5-letter words.
Feel like your perfectly crafted writing is off by only one word? That's the difference between "blueberry jam" and "toe jam". ;-)8
Hypothetical proposal: You get to design your very own Mount Rushmore. Whose 4 faces will be carved on it? It can be inventors, musicians, film makers, statesmen, etc., but it can only be 4. Answer in the comment section below.
Brian P. Cleary Fact for Which You Will Surely Have No Future Use: The two proper nouns (names) in the song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" are Michael and Jordan.
Idea for English classes -- start a wiki called "Could-Reads" to which the students contribute.
Gallagher Handouts
English 7 Sort and Plan
Reading Minute
Index of Everyday Editing Lessons
Just for me:
http://www.politifact.com/ valid and reliable? St Petersburg Times -- won 2009 Pulitzer for what?
http://www.factcheck.org/ valid and reliable? http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/About.aspx
http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/ Resources for teachers
Teaching Writing -- Using Technology
For Fun
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Hawthorne/Rappaccini.htm
See also Claudia's wiki for her seventh grade English classes.
Core Testing -- Under Navigator, click on Files, then find the CRT Practice file folder.
Carli, I just added a page for READ 180.
If you get lost, go to the link to the FrontPage in the upper right hand corner. Changed Feb. 2010 -- See tabs at upper left.
To see all folders, pages, and files available, click on Pages & Files in the upper right hand corner.
To see the files in a folder, click on "files" at the bottom of the navigation box.
Begin by checking out the Commonly Confused Words folder in the navigation box to the right.
Also see Comments from Claudia.
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