7th Grade Literacy Assignments

7th Grade:

Text: My Brother Sam is Dead OR War Comes to Willy Freeman

Google Classroom Code: q75hat6

Khan Academy Enrichment Code: X57HR7DW

Students are required to complete 20 minutes of Khan Academy per day. 

Reagents in ELA Packet should be complete by 3/31.  

Writing Assignment: Students are writing an original narrative that should be at least 3 pages long based on a painting of their choosing. (See Google Classroom for specifics)  

Choose the painting that you want to use to inspire your story (It must have at least 2 people in it). Make sure you have the title of the painting, the artist's name and when it was painted. If it is not one of the paintings we looked at in class, take some time to carefully observe the painting, identify the mood and make some wondering questions like we did together. Then start planning your story: What type of narrator will your story have? Does your story take place in the moment of the painting or is it focused on what happens next or what happened to lead up to that moment? Make a list of events or perhaps create a plot map to help you when it is time to write your story. You don't have to begin drafting yet but you should be ready to write next week. If you get inspired to start drafting you can. 

Flip Grid book talk due. feaman2

Complete the IAR Unit 1 Essay question if not finished in class. Remember to write your answer in a shared document in your Google Drive, NOT in the test browser!!!

 

Quarter 3 Book Talk #1

Place your book talk in your shared folder. Create a book talk presentation on FlipGrid. 

Vocab Packet due + quiz

Complete "Empowering the Black Power Movement" on commonlit

Prefix Quiz 41-50

Vocab Packet Due Friday + Quiz

Full Poetry Packet due. You do not need to complete page 17. 

Prefix Quiz 2/11

antho- flower (anther)

anthro- man (anthropology)

anti- against (antibody)

apo- response, defense (apology, apologue) Extra Point if you can define apologue!

apt- fit (adapt, aptly)

aqua- water (aquatic, aquarium)

ar- relating to (lunar, solar)

archi- primitive, original (architecture, archive)

archy- a government (monarchy, oligarchy) Extra points if you can define oligarchy.

ard- always, regularly (coward, wizard)

Complete page 20 in your poetry packet

Complete page 13 questions 1-4 of your Poetry of Current Events Packet.

Prefix Quiz 21-30 (1-30 EC)

 

ami- friend (amicable)

amphi- both (amphibian)

an- without (anarchy)

andro- man (android or androgen)

ang- bend (angle)

angel- messenger (angelic)

anglo- English (Anglo-Saxon or anglophile)

anim- life, spirit (animal, animate)

ann- year (anniversary)

ante- before (anterior) 

 

Quarter 2 Book Talk Due 

Vocab packet 12 due + QUIZ

Vocab Packet 11 due + Quiz

Prefix/Suffix/Root Quiz 1-10 (a, a, ab, aci, acr, acro, act, acu, ad, aden)

NWEA MAP Reading Test

China's Impolitic Artist. Still Waiting to be Silenced + Graphic Organizer

Commonlit- Hoover: Feeding the Starving Victims of WWI

Complete Allegory of the Cave commonlit assignment. 

Re-read the last four pages and respond in your notebook: Explain how the last four pages reveal the authors overarching warning to society. 

Complete the commonlit assignment handed out in class.

CL: Complete Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Make sure to annotate the text.

FlipGrid: Respond to 12/13-12/15 homework assignment with a video. Cite textual evidence from both resources (Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron).

Quarter 2 Book Talk due 12/13. This document must be placed in your shared folder. It MUST be labeled "Quarter 2 Book Talk 1".  Make sure to reference the rubric. 

Respond to the prompt on Flipgrid.com

Vocab Packet and Quiz 

Read Fahrenheit 451 pages 17-24. Complete 1 annotation. 

Complete one annotation for pages 3-4 in Fahrenheit 451.  Complete Burning a Book on Commonlit if you did not complete it in class. Your Skellig final assessment should be saved in your drive ready for grading. 

Commonlit: HARD COPY

Read and annotate A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings. Complete multiple choice questions.

Read chapter 34 of Skellig. Annotate the poem The Angel by William Blake. Separately, explain how the poem related to Skellig. 

Read part 2 of chapter 7 in The Graveyard Book (page 229- 251 at the break). Create 3 deep thinking annotations and 1 discussion question. 

Read chapters 15 and 16 in Skellig- continue to look for recurring motifs

Vocab packet 8 due. Quiz. 

Read chapter 11,12, and 13.

Explain how the author describes the creature in chapter 10. Cite.

How does the word "squeaked" impact the readers interpretation of the garage creature? Explain. 

Read chapters 6,7,8, and 9 of Skellig. 

In your notebook: How does the author describe the creature in the garage in chapter 7? Cite

 

 

Read chapter 2 of Skellig. Create one annotations from either chapter 1 or chapter 2. Make sure to complete this in your reading notebook. 

Finish reading The Outsiders. Complete all activities for "If" by Rudyard Kipling on Commonlit.

Finish reading The Outsiders Chapters 9 and 10 if not completed in class

Finish "Nothing Gold Can Stay" questions. Read chapter 8 of The Outsiders and complete writing prompt. 

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" Commonlit due. Make sure to ANNOTATE your reading. 

Vocab Chapter 6 quiz and packet due.

Read chapters 6 and 7 for Monday. The Outsiders

 

Vocab Packet 6 Due Fridays 10/18

Quiz

Finish reading Chapter 5 in The Outsiders

Complete the Commonlit assignment: Self-Concept

Remember to include text evidence, a citation, and signal phrase

Complete Outsiders chapter 3 CER questions. Remember that each question needs two pieces of text evidence. 

Vocab packet 4 due Friday 10/4

Draft 2: The Outsiders Writing Prompt

The Outsiders writing prompt. Placed in your shared folder or printed.

Finish reading and annotating Chaucer packet pages 7-8 and 11-15 (Introduction and prologue) if not finished in class. 

Finish reviewing pages 75-end of Black Ships Before Troy

 

Vocab Packet 2 Due- Vocab Quiz

Grammar Packet #2

Read Black Ships Before Troy pages 35-62.

Summarize the reading in 5-7 sentences.  Remember to be OBJECTIVE.

Bring back signed NWEA MAP goal report or a note/email.

Commonlit Assignment: GREEK SOCIETY by Mark Cartwright. Read, annotate, answer questions. 

Grammar packet 1 pages 2-7 due 

Commonlit: PRESIDENT BUSH’S “ISLAM IS PEACE” SPEECH

Re-read pages 22-39 of Black Ships Before Troy.