ASSIGN YOURSELF: (1st, 2nd, 3rd period) Pronoun Assignment: on page 127 of your small Grammar Handbook, work on #s 1-10. Write the complete sentence and fill in the correct pronoun. (4th period) Create 10 sentences with 10 different pronouns. Underline the pronoun of each sentence.

*PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU WRITE DOWN THE COMPLETE HEADING ON YOUR PAPER IN ORDER TO AVOID 'NO CREDIT'.

DO NOW: Johnny said, "Sixteen years is not long enough" to live a life. Why does Johnny want to be knowledgeable now?

OBJECTIVE: *Identify pronouns. *Identify the plot of a story.

Class Assignment: Work on #s 1-20 of Exercise 2 on page. 430. Write the correct pronoun only.

Class also wrote down all of the pronouns on pages 429, 435, 437, & 439 of the Writer's Choice book.

Some classes got a chance to copy notes for "The Outsiders" plot.

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Create 5 sentences. Rewrite each sentence using a pronoun in the place of every noun.

DO NOW: Dally is not necessarily a "thinker." Explain why he is not by using the definition on the IB Learner Profile handout and examples from the novel.

OBJECTIVE: *Identify pronouns. *Identify character conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society). *View The Outsiders

Class Assignment:

Finish viewing The Outsiders. Class discussion.

Helpful Links:

• definition of a pronoun.
• a list of pronouns.
• quiz yourself!

The Outsiders

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Enjoy your weekend!

DO NOW: How can a caring attitude change the relationship between the Soc's and the Greasers?

OBJECTIVE: *Identify conflict. *Identify character conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society). *View The Outsiders

Class Assignment (1st, 2nd, 4th):

Continue documenting character details in your T chart.

September 20, 2007

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Study verb tenses.

DO NOW: Cherry tells Sodapop, “Things are tough all over.” What is she trying to convey to Sodapop? Explain.

OBJECTIVE: *Identify conflict. *Identify character conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society.

Class Assignment (1st, 2nd, 4th):

Continue documenting character details in your T chart.

Class Assignment (3rd):

Analyze Robert Frost's Poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay."

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Summarize "The Outsiders" using important characters and details from your graphic organizer notes.

DO NOW: People who are constantly getting in fights and in trouble are not good communicators. Explain why and give some solutions to their problems. How can they use good communication skills to avoid getting in trouble?

OBJECTIVE: *Identify verb tenses. *Identify conflict. *Identify character conflict (man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature, man vs. society.

Class Assignment:

Create a T chart noting the character names and details about those characters.

STUDENTS!!!

Please avoid getting in trouble. Have your homework ready as soon as you arrive to class. I want to give a shout-out to Coral for her awesome mature behavior in my class. She is always polite and remains quiet during lecture. Way to go!

REMINDER:

If you need to speak to me regarding your homework, please call me at 371-5695. If I do not answer, always leave me a message so that I may return your call. Otherwise, I will not return the phone call (it is impossible for me to return phone calls if I have 20 missed calls with no i.d. on them). 

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Write four sentences in the past tense, four sentences in the present tense, and four sentences in the future tense.

DO NOW: Would a "principled" person join a gang? Explain using the definition of principled.

OBJECTIVE: *Identify verb tenses. *Identify conflict.

Class Assignment:

Verb tense exercise review (on board).

Work on 6 verb tense exercises on the Writer's Choice book. Class checked the answers to those problems afterward.

Nothing Gold Can Stay...

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so an hour

Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay...

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Explain why it is important to be a balanced individual (from the IB Learner Profile)? How is being balanced relevant to the real world?

DO NOW: 

OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate mastery of character types and verb types.

Class Assignment:

Exam II

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Answer questions on pg. 121 of your Grammar & Composition book under "Pretest Pronouns." Work on #s 1-15. Write the sentence and underline all of the pronouns you can find in each sentence. (7th period: No homework given. Students will have homework tomorrow instead.)

DO NOW: Reflect upon your behavior and actions in the past three weeks. What areas do you need to improve? Explain.

OBJECTIVE: *Identify noun types & pronouns. *Understand summarization. *Identify the main idea. (7th period: Demonstrate mastery of literary elements and parts of speech).

Class Assignment (1st, 2nd, & 3rd period):

• Work on pronouns, page 432 of student's Writer's Choice Grammar book. Work on 1-5 of Exercise 3 by writing the second sentence with the appropriate pronoun.

• Periods 1, 2, & 3 were given Grammar Composition Handbook

• Copy notes for "Types of Characters"

1. Round Character - a character that is well developed; the character is described in detail.
2. Flat Character - a character that is not well developed; the reader does not know much information about this type of character.

          (click here to get further explanation of round and flat characters).

1. Dynamic Character - a character that undergoes a change throughout the story.
2. Static Character - a character that stays the same throughout the story and does not change.

• Work on Types of Characters Chart.

(click here to get further explanation of dynamic and static characters).

Class Assignment: 7th

• Work on "Broken Chain" Exam.
  

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Summarize "Broken Chain" using descriptive details.

DO NOW: Why is a person's interior more important than a person's exterior?

OBJECTIVE: *Identify verb types. *Understand summarization. *Identify the main idea.

Class Assignment (1st, 2nd, & 3rd period):

Work on verb quiz.

Read about "main idea" in the Literature Workbook.

7th period:

Took "Broken Chain" exam.

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Complete Verb Tense worksheet and Main Idea handout. Take online verb tense and main idea quiz (www.yayoungadultliterature.blogspot.com).

DO NOW: What is one question you would like to ask Gary Soto, author of "Broken Chain?"

OBJECTIVE: *Identify verb tense. *Understand summarization. *Identify the main idea.

Class Assignment(s):

Various Verb types:

• Action Verbs: verbs that demonstrates something that a person, animal, or force of nature can do.
• Physical Verbs - verbs that express a physical action that can be seen. ex: dance, run, play.
• Mental Verbs - actions that cannot be seen. ex: think, respect, wonder, dream...

          click here to take a quick quiz on action verbs.

• Linking Verbs: verbs that do not express an action; they connect the subject to a noun or adjective in the predicate of a sentence.

                     (noun)    lv   (adj.)         

           ex: Samantha  is   pretty.           

            

          click here for hints on linking verbs.

• Helping Verbs: 

Weekly Assessment:

Students, you will be expected to know how to identify verb tenses, summarization, main idea, flat and round characters, as well as static and dynamic characters by the end of the week. 

ASSIGN YOURSELF:  Write a one-page essay about your goals for the future (your career). Is your behavior (attitude) in school helping you achieve that goal or not. Explain why or why not.

DO NOW: Alfonso became self-confident once he realized that people like him for his personality and not his bike, hair, or teeth. Do you think Alfonso would have become more confident if Sandra had not gone out with him?

OBJECTIVES: Demonstrate mastery of parts of speech.

Demonstrate mastery of literary terms.

Welcome 7th Grade English!! You will find the class's daily work posted here on this website. Feel free to ask questions that pertain to the classwork and homework. This is not a social gathering, so keep conversation on an educational basis only.

ASSIGN YOURSELF: Study the week's literary elements, the story, "Broken Chain," complete subject, complete predicate, simple subject, simple predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

DO NOW: Create five sentences that include adjectives and adverbs. Each sentence must have at least one adjective and one adverb.

OBJECTIVE:  Identify the parts of speech.

                            Identify the types of conflict, foreshadowing, and the plot in a short story.

Class Assignment(s):

Study the following for tomorrow's exam:

1. Exposition - the characters, setting (time and place), and conflict (the problem) of the story.
2. Rising Action - events that lead to the climax of the story.
3. Climax - the turning point of the story where a major change in the protagonist occurs.
4. Falling Action - events that occur after the climax.
5. Protagonist - the main character in the story that undergoes a change; the reader follows the protagonist from the beginning of the story to the end.
6. Noun - names a person, place, thing, or idea.
7. Verb - an action.
8. Adjective - a word that describes a noun.
9. Adverb - a word that describes a verb.
10. Complete subject - the part of a sentences that tells who or what the sentence is talking about. Complete predicate - the part of a sentence that tells what happened in the sentence.
11. Simple Subject (ss)- the one word that tells who or what the sentence is about. Simple Predicate (sp) tells in one word the action that occurred in the sentence.
12. Broken Chain - be able to understand the story and answer questions about the characters and the plot (story is on page 6).