Standard
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.
ELA7R1.1b Interpret character traits, emotions, motivations, and supporting evidence
Warm Up
Students will review author’s purpose and complete the handout 1041526.
Homework
- Read a challenging book for 30 minutes.
Students should have completed the following assignments (in preparation for the book chat project) by now:
Business Card for Biography:Autoiography
Education or Training of Protagonist
Theme: state the theme and give 3 pieces of evidence to sustantiate it
Accomplishments and Struggles handout
Setting handout
Activities
- Students will receive the criteria for the Scrapbook pdf project for the biography book. This project will be due 2/14 at the book chat. Students will gather the assignments completed as they were reading this book and fine tune them for the completion of the scrapbook project.
- Students will reread parts of their biography looking for information to use in their Scrapbook pdf project.