January 2015

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Snow Day

Finsish Reading "How to Build a Fire"; Use Classroom

Half Day: Read

Classroom Expectations;
Read
Survival
"To Build
UnitaPretest
Fire" "How to Build a

Fire"; Context Clues

Notes:
Survival Unit Goals & Standards

February 2015
Sunday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Write Objective Summary;

SnowDiscuss
Day Informational
Students
Text; watch
Structure
"Virtual
= Meaning
Begin
ChoirReading
1.0"; Discuss
"Survival"
Summaries
Finish Reading
and "Survival";
TechnologyCompare/Contrast "How to
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Adaptation of Week's Lesson

Connotation
Plans & Denotation
Begin Reading "To Build
Full
a Fire"
Day

B1
Standards
Lab: Sign
Review;
Students
Study
up No
Guides
for School
Edmodo
Assigned

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No School

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Think about
motivation level
when planning for
seventh grade

Notes:

Survival Unit Test

Argumentative Paper
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Due; Unit Introduction
and Layout; Introduction
to Research Project and
Choice Overview; Peer
Edits; 30 minutes of
Research; Go over
Exemplar(what students
could do to make it
better); Finish Outline

18

B1 Lab: Students
Half Day: B1 Lab; Go
complete "Outline";
over "Exemplar
with and Instructions
B1 Lab: Introduce Argumentative
Paper
Begin writing paper;
Notes"; Finish Research
SNOWDAY
Introduce Project;
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25Day: Library Lab
26
Half
Papers Due; Library
and Tables Research;
Write Informational
Lab Research;
Write Informational
Paper; Study Guide
Redraft
Paper; Book Clubs;
Day; Revise Edit;
Argumentative
Book Club (task like
Redraft; grammar
Paper; Go over
how characters add to
mini-lesson
citations; Write a
the plot)
Draft

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B1 Lab: Finish
Writing Paper; Book
Clubs if time;
SNOWDAY

Chinese Club Plans 2/17

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Library Lab and

Tables: Finish
Informational Paper;
PowerPoint
Introduction; Unit Test;
Final Draft

If students need an
extension until
Monday, the due
date can be
extended

March 2015
Sunday
1

15

Monday

Tuesday

Studay Guide Day

Survival Unit Test

10

Book Club Due;

Determine Plot
Elements; Write an
Objective Summary

16

Saturday
7

Half Day: Theme and

Plot

Half "Life
Day: Theme
and
Plot and Rhyme Scheme
Full Day: Rhyme Scheme;
Is Fine":
Theme

Begin Literature Soup

Read/T4:
Unit; Read
"The "Dreamer"
Dreame T4

Read/T4: "The
Dreamer"

Finish Reading
"Dreamer"

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Read/T4:The Glory
Field

Read/T4:The Glory Field

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Read/T4: "Banquet
Pavilion"

Read/T4: "Banquet Pavilion"

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Friday
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Read/T4: "Kite
Runner" Poem

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Thursday
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Read/T4: "Kite Runner" Poem

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Wednesday
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Study Guide Day

Literature Soup Test

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Half Day Review:

Compound, Complex,
Subordinating
Conjunction, and
Coordinating
Conjunction

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Half Day

Notes:
Literature Soup Reading Packet

Read/T4: "A

Headstrong
Boy":
Read/T4:
Read/T4:
"Dreams"
"A Headstrong
Boy"
SUBPLANS

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April 2015
Sunday

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Tuesday

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Saturday
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Plan on 10-15
Students being
gone; Charlotte
Doyle Movie

No School
Student Goals Day (PPT slides 2-5); Evaluating Advertisements
PPT

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No School

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No School

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Book Club Due;

Science Fiction
Pretest

Read EMP Article;

Central Idea;
Author's Purpose

Read "Monsters are

Read "Monsters are
Due on Maple
Due onin
Maple
Half Day: Godzilla EMP vs. EMP Article; Differences
Presentation
Street" Individually
Street"
& Together

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Discussion on
Theme; Element
Interaction

Read "Monsters are

Due on Maple
Street"

Read "Monsters are

Due on Maple
Street"

Half Day: Discussion

on Difference
between texts

Writing
Conventions;
Grammar (Commas
& Spelling)

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Half Day

Notes

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