7th GRADE "MAKER'S EXPERIENCE" FIELD TRIP
coming up next Tuesday-Thursday
FEBRUARY 7-8-9
9:30-1:30, all expenses paid (including school sack lunch)
* bring your own lunch from home if you wish
PERMISSION SLIPS TO GO HOME THIS WEEK
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END OF THE QUARTER THIS WEEK
-- get all make up vocab work in by Monday (last chance!!!!!)
I. GIVER notes
A. - teacher led notes, UTOPIA cornell-style notes
- what is, how is, how does Giver author present a utopia?
- discuss in groups how the Community might be presented as a utopia
B. - EUPHEMISMS & LANGUAGE in the GIVER
- teacher led notes, Cornell-style
- discuss in groups/list examples of words used as euphemisms in the Giver
II. GIVER, chapter 4
- read/SSR
- review Q's at end of chapter
- teacher led example of more detailed, extended answers with proof from text
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HOMEWORK -- kind of a dead week/ make up week w/ end of grading period
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__ continue to read 20-30 minutes Free Choice Book (finish by next Tuesday)
UNLESS it's super long and small print; talk with teacher
__ begin/continue to think about ICONS for ICON BOOK TALK (be ready by Fri. 2/10)
review list of literary elements to cover written in your tracker!!!
__ begin 1-2 Free Choice Book VOCAB (10 due by Monday)
focus on 1st few chapters
more than 10 counts for make up / extra credit
(a) word; (b) part of speech; (c) definition of word; (d) sentence in which word appears;
(e) explanation/context/comments about what's happening in story where word appears
COMING UP NEXT WEEK:
___ start thinking about Castles! Will be due first week of March (TBD)
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