Mrs. Abrams

Friday, April 1, 2011

Students will go to the media center to check out a historical fiction book at the high end of their lexile level.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Boo Chat: Students shared their Detective's Handbook and turned these in for a grade.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Standard
ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content
ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

 

Warm Up: Complete pg. 145-146 in Ladders to Success to assess the profiency of determining the author's purpose. This will be collected for a grade.

Homework
Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
Students will create a “Wanted” poster of the villain in their mystery. Wanted Poster Template If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

The final copies of the following assignments are due on Monday: Detective's Log  and  Detective's Log page 2 

Foreword

Sleuth's Character Traits- graphic organizer and paragraph

Kind of Mystery

Crime Scene- paragraph and drawing

Sidekick

Wanted Poster  Wanted Poster Template

Detective's Log

How To

Persuasive Letter

Business Card

Warm Up
Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 121 to work on reviewing figurative language.

Activities

Students will assess their Detective's Handbook based on the details in Detective's Log  and Detective's Log page 2  handout.If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

 

CRCT Practice Tests 

 

Standard
ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content
ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

 

Warm Up: Complete pg. 145-146 in Ladders to Success to assess the profiency of determining the author's purpose. This will be collected for a grade.

Homework
Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
Students will create a “Wanted” poster of the villain in their mystery. Wanted Poster Template If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

The final copies of the following assignments are due on Monday: Detective's Log  and  Detective's Log page 2 

Foreword

Sleuth's Character Traits- graphic organizer and paragraph

Kind of Mystery

Crime Scene- paragraph and drawing

Sidekick

Wanted Poster  Wanted Poster Template

Detective's Log

Warm Up
Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 142-143 to work on determining the author’s purpose. This assignment will be collected for a grade.

Activities

Students will write a persuasive letter to the Chief of Police from their novel  and create a business card for their sleuth.  Please refer to the details explained in this assignment in Detective's Log  and Detective's Log page 2  handout.If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

 

Monday, March 28, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

 

CRCT Practice Tests 

 

Standard
ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content
ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework
Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
Students will create a “Wanted” poster of the villain in their mystery. Wanted Poster Template If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

The final copies of the following assignments are due on Monday: Detective's Log  and  Detective's Log page 2 

Foreword

Sleuth's Character Traits- graphic organizer and paragraph

Kind of Mystery

Crime Scene- paragraph and drawing

Sidekick

Wanted Poster  Wanted Poster Template

Detective's Log

Warm Up
Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 142-143 to work on determining the author’s purpose. This assignment will be collected for a grade.

Activities

Students will write a how-to paragraph.  Please refer to the details explained in this assignment in Detective's Log  and Detective's Log page 2  handout.If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

 

Friday, March 25, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

 

CRCT Practice Tests 

 

Standard
ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content
ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework
Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
Students will create a “Wanted” poster of the villain in their mystery. Wanted Poster Template If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

The final copies of the following assignments are due on Monday: Detective's Log 

Foreword

Sleuth's Character Traits- graphic organizer and paragraph

Kind of Mystery

Crime Scene- paragraph and drawing

Sidekick

Wanted Poster

Detective's Log

Warm Up
Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 141 to work on determining the author’s purpose.

Activities
Students will create a “Wanted” poster of the villain in their mystery.  Wanted Poster Template If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

Student's will complete the Detective's Log. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Standard

ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content

ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework

• Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
• Students will write a character sketch about the sidekick (static character) and describe how the sidekick contributes to detection during the mystery. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

Warm Up

Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 140 to work on determining the author’s purpose. This will count for a class work grade.

Activities

Students will write a character sketch about the sidekick (static character) and describe how the sidekick contributes to detection during the mystery. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

CRCT Practice Tests

 

 

Standards

ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content

ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework

• Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
• Students will complete the description of the crime scene. for the Detective's Log. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

Warm Up

Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 139 to work on determining the author’s purpose. 

Activities

 

Students will complete the description of the crime scene. for the Detective's Log. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

 

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

CRCT Practice Tests 

Standards

ELA7RC1 The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) per year from a variety of subject disciplines. The student reads both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse, including technical texts related to various subject areas.

ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content

ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework

• Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading their mystery book by now.
• Students will complete an entry for the  Detective's Log . (How do the your sleuth’s character traits contribute to his/her strengths and weaknesses as a detective?  If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.
• Students will complete the following entry for their  Detective's Log :
• What kind of mystery is your sleuth trying to solve? How does your sleauth get involved?

 

Warm Up

Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 138 to work on determining the author’s purpose. This will count for a class work grade.

Activities

1.  Students will complete an entry for the  Detective's Log . (How do the your sleuth’s character traits contribute to his/her strengths and weaknesses as a detective?  If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

 

Monday, March 21, 2011

Save the Date:

Our next book chat will be on Thursday, March 31 during your student's reading class

 

CRCT Practice Tests 

 

 

Standard

ELA7RC4a Explore life experiences related to subject area content

ELA7R1.2c Apply knowledge of organizational structures/patterns in informational texts

Homework

• Read a challenging chapter book for 30 minutes. Students should have finished reading at least 3/4 of their mystery book by now.
• Compete the cover for the  Detective's Log .
• Students will complete the Foreword for the  Detective's Log. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.

 

Warm Up

Using Ladders to Success Level G students will complete pg. 136-137 to work on determining the author’s purpose. This will count for a class work grade.

Activities

1.  Students receive the expectations for the project for the book chat on a  Detective's Log handout.
2.  Students will complete the Foreword for the  Detective's Log. If this is not finished in class, it must be completed at home.