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

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