Mrs. Churvis’ Blog- Social Studies - Language Arts - APEX

Field Day 5/14/09 Thursday

Social Studies

• Library Day-Monday
• DOG Lesson 33 A Tourist Map-Missouri
  
• Continue with “Facing History and Ourselves” program on the Holocaust
• Read The Children of Willesden Lane-story of Holocaust survivor

Standard Language Arts

• Daily Analogies #31-35
• Spelling Lesson 31
• Grammar-Caught Ya #77-81
• Literature- Read “Yeh-Shen”
• Response and analysis pg. 388
• Friday-Spelling/Definition Test
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily Analogies #141-145
• Grammar-Giggles in the Middle #77-81
• Continue with literature from Social Studies
  
• Editing due Friday
• Spelling/Definition Test Friday
• Puzzle Day Friday
  

Friday

• Yearbook distribution and signing 1:30
• Career Day-speakers scheduled
  

Social Studies

• DOG- Lesson 32 Land Use Map-North Central Region
• Complete Chapter 19 Central Asia
• Open book test Thursday
• Continue Holocaust Unit-The Children of Willesden Lane

Standard Language Arts

• Daily Analogies
• Spelling Review Unit #27-30
• Spell/Def. test on Thursday
• Literature-Bargain & Yeh-Shen
• Grammar-Caught Ya #72-76
  
• Puzzle Day-Thursday
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily Analogies #136-140
• Grammar-Giggles in the Middle-Types of sentences, use of commas, appositives, homophones, personification, metaphors, and building suspense
  
• Continue presenting poetry projects
• Finalize poetry books
• Tie in social studies’ unit on Holocaust-Writing assignment
• Spell/Def. test on Thursday
  

Library-Monday

Social Studies

• DOG-Time Zones of the U.S.
• Correlate Tennessee book
• Ch. 19 Central Asia
• Sec. 1-3 Vocabulary
• The Aral sea
• Lessons 1-4 Decision-Making in Times of Injustice
• New piece of 7th grade curriculum
  

Standard Language Arts

• Daily Analogies
• Spelling Lesson 30
• Analyze Omniscient Point of View
• O’Henry
• Analyzing an author’s perspective
  
• Definitions-due Tuesday
• Use 5 of the words to describe a national news story
  
• Test Friday

APEX Language Arts

• Daily Analogies
• Giggles in the Middle #67-71
• Editing due Friday
• Word Within the Word-last half of list #5
• Mystery Question-Dictionary work (stems)
  
• Grammar
• Poetry-Styles-Ode, palindrome, pantoum, shape, and sonnet (English version)
  
• Construct poetry book-rewriting, illustrating poems
• Poem to be placed into Time capsule due Wed.
  
• Spelling/Definition Test Friday
• Poet project due May 1
  

Congratulations!!!!!!

You made it through TCAP week!!!!!

4/20 Interim reports are issued

4/21 10th Anniversary Celebration 6:30 to 8:00

4/24 Field Trip team 7A 9:00-12:30

Social Studies

• DOG Lesson 30 Boroughs of New York City
• Tennessee- Section 3 Government
• Tennessee- Economy and Culture
• Tennessee Scavenger Hunt- teams
• Review for test
• Thursday Tenn. test
  

Standard Language Arts

• Daily Analogies # 16-20 Sequential characters, synonyms, grammatical, agent/action, whole/part, arithmetical
  
• Lesson 29 Spelling
• Caught Ya Grammar-#62-66 Punctuation review, interjection, compound sent., contractions, and similes
  
• Literature-”The Only Girl in th World for Me”
• Spelling/ Definition test on Thursday
• Discuss To Kill a Mockingbird-preparing for field trip Friday
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily Analogies #126-130-Synonyms, agent/object, object/function, antonyms, class, characteristics
• Giggles in the Middle # 63-66 Editing due Thursday
• Grammar-Vernaculars, sub./verb agreement, verb tense shift, personification, onomatopoeia
• Word Within the Word List 5 page 29
  
• Literature-poetry terms-identify
• Students will be given a poet to do a report on.
• Spell./definition test Thursday
• Field trip Friday
  

TCAPs will be administered this week from Tuesday the 14th to Friday the 17th. The schedule is as follows;

• Tuesday- Math Part I and  Part I
• Wednesday- Reading Part I and Science 2
• Thursday- Reading Part 2 and Science Part 2
• Friday- Social Studies Part I and 2

Please try your best to be at school every day this week and on time. Having a good breakfast is always a good idea before an important test. Remember to bring plenty of pencils and a calculator.

Monday

Social Studies

• DOG Lesson 29 Leading Rice Producing Countries
• Practice Probes
  

All Language Arts

• Critical Reading Skills
• Daily Analogies
• Editing skills in respective series
• Practice probes
  
• No spell./def. test this week
  

Social Studies

• Library Monday
• Throughout the week we will be working on creating our Tennessee book
• TCAP Review
• No school Friday
  

Standard Language Arts

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APEX Language Arts

• Participle and infinitive review
• Practice Probes
  
• TCAP practice
• Spelling Test Thursday 4/09/09
• Definition Test Thursday 4/09/09
• No school Friday
  

Social Studies

• World’s 10 Most Populous Countries
• Ch. 18 Test- Monday
  
• For the rest of the time up to TCAPs we will be studying Tennessee (which is included in the state test)
  
• The class will be creating a Tennessee Book
• The book will have maps, vocabulary, historical and governmental facts, trivia, and short bios of famous Tennesseans
• We will have a class test on the above information April 9th, Thursday
  

Standard Language Arts

• DOL- Critical Rdg. Passage Completion and Analogies
• Spelling-list given in class
• Spelling and definition Test Friday
• Caught Ya Grammar-#52-56-homophones, use of commas, appositives, use of strong verbs, verb tense agreement and proper nouns)
  
• Review of prepositional phrases (adjectives and adverbs), test Tuesday
• Recognizing Appositive phrases
  
• Read “The Only Girl in the World for Me” discuss theme
• Begin cinquains
• Cause/effect essay using week’s vocab.
• Compare/contrast essay
• Grammar Bingo
  

APEX Language Arts

• DOL-Analogies Week of 24 #116-120
• Giggles in the Middle-Editing 52-56 due Friday
• Vocab. from above-spelling/definition test Friday
• Review prepositional phrases as adjectives/adverbs, test Tuesday
• Recognizing Appositives phrases, participles, infinitives and infinitive phrases
• Literature-Read “Home”- analyze theme, compare/contrast story to a poem
• “Mongoose on the Loose”-analyze text that show cause/effect relationships
• Practice vocab. skills, writing skills, point of view, author’s argument, purpose and perspective
  
• Word Within the Word List 4 2nd 10 stems- test Friday
• Essay compare/contrast using WWW vocab.

Upcoming Events

• 3/23 Fourth quarter begins
• 4/01 Report cards distributed
• 4/10 Good Friday holiday
• 4/14-17 TCAP Testing
  

Social Studies

• Library-Monday
• Have vocab. for all of Ch. 18 completed by Tues.
• Ch. 18 The Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran
• Sec. 1-4 Read and discuss
• Working in pairs fill in chart on countries of area
• Read “Oil in Saudi Arabia”, ans. ques. pg. 445 1-3
• Ch. 18 Test Monday 3/30?

Standard Language Arts

• DOL-Critical Reading-Passage completion-key words, context clues, and main idea
• Wordly Wise Lesson 20
• Caught Ya Grammar-Capitals, punctuation, commas, and vocab.
• Chapter 20 Phrases-Prepositional phrases and clauses
• Read “Saving the Planet”
• Spelling and def. test Friday
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily Analogies-Characteristics, part/whole, synonym, agent/object, object/function, action/object
• Giggles in the Middle Grammar-Types of sent., punctuation, reasons for semicolons, collective nouns, homophones, and interrupters
• Literary devices-reference to poetry, poems in narrative
• Writing idea-poetry-write several cinquains on nature. Use guide line given by teacher.
  
• Chapter 20 Phrases-Prepositional phrases and clauses, wb. pgs. 69-70
• Word Within the Word List 4
• Discuss author study and required book reports for the last quarter.
  

Social Studies

• continue Chapter 17 Eastern Mediterranean
• Sec. 3 Israel
• Analyzing a Cartogram
• Sec. 4 Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan
• Literature from Red Brocade
• Ch. review
• Thursday Ch. 17 test
  

Standard Language Arts

• DOL Critical Reading-Sentence and Passage Completion
• Wordly Wise Lesson 19
• Wordly Wise 19A, 19B, and 19C
  
• Spelling and Definition Test Thursday
• Complete reading/discussing novel
• Watch film
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily analogies-Week 22- Grammatical, synonym, antonym, action/object, characteristics, and location
• Giggles in the Middle-#42-46 editing to be completed by Thursday
  
• Grammar-Subject complement, compound subject complement, and prepositional phrases
• Grammar Ch. 19 Test Thursday
• Writing Idea #9 Persuasive (Argumentative) Essay
• Present Romeo and Juliet projects-due Wed. 11th
• AR tests due Wed.
• No spelling/definition test this week
• Complete reading/discussing novel
• Watch film
  
• Literature response writing

Social Studies

*****Library 8:30 to 9:15*****

• National Parks of Utah
• Ch. 17 Eastern Mediterranean
• Analyze maps-physical, political, resources, population, climate
• Discuss, chart facts about the countries
• Label maps-countries/bodies of water
• Sec. 1 Physical Geography
• Sec. 2 Turkey
  

Standard Language Arts

• DOL-Critical Reading/Sentence Completion
• Wordly Wise Lesson 18
• Dictionary work
• Caught ya Grammar- punctuation, contractions, use of commas, possession, verb tense agreement, word order, use of semicolon
• Continue direct and indirect objects
  
• Romeo and Juliet-Act V
• Novel test Thursday
• Definition and spelling tests Friday
  

APEX Language Arts

• Daily analogies-antonyms, characteristics, class, object/function, arithmetical, part/whole
• Grammar-Giggles in the Middle-#37-41, completed proofing due Friday
  
• Word Within the Word-continue list 3-finish stems
• Grammar-continue indirect objects, subject complements
  
• Writing-Personal/Imaginative Narrative
• Romeo and Juliet Act V-character analysis, ques. from Act V
• End of novel test
  
• Group activity-presentations Wed.
• Definition and spelling tests Friday

Dates to Remember

• March 2-6 International Week
• March 13 Q3 ends
• March 14-22 Spring Break
• March 4 AR reports due