7th Grade English Language Arts Assignments

Good day! I sent this information in our March newsletter but wanted to report here:

 

We are wrapping up the novel Trash by Andy Mulligan. It is a compelling mystery set in the poorest of places. The students will be analyzing themes and writing an essay to finish the book. There is a movie version of the book available on Netflix but it is rated ‘R’. I watched the movie and determined it had too many swear words and some graphic violence for me to show it in class at school. Several scenes are subtitled so I couldn’t just fast forward through and not have the students see the words. IF you choose to let your child watch it, I would suggest watching it with them and you can decide if it is too much for your child. I highly recommend the IMDB website – Internet Movie Data Base – for ANY movie you are considering watching with your children. It has a parent’s guide for every movie and thoroughly details what is in a film that might concern parents.

 

Have a good day - 

Mrs. Molly Daugherty

Finish reading Trash novel. Read and bullet point summarize Part Five, Chapters 3 through 6. ALSO, MANDATORY: Read the Appendix, the Note from the Author and the Acknowledgements at the end of the book! Due on Tuesday 3/10/20!

Don't forget the Trash novel Newspaper Articles (pages 186-189) and part Five Chapters One and Two (pages 193 - 205) are to be read and bullet point summarized by tomorrow, Wednesday 3/4/20.

Read and bullet point summarize Part Four, Chapters One through Four - pages 153 - 175 by Thursday. Make sure to include important plot points and who is narrating as you read. I will check the summaries on Thursday. 

In your Trash novel, please read Part Three, Chapters 8, 9 and 10 by Monday 2/24/20. You will be bullet-point summarizing the chapters. I will be checking you have them summarized and completed on Monday. 

 

We will resume the D.O.L. and Vocabulary next week. There are no tests for D.O.L. nor Vocabulary this week. 

Happy St. Valentine's Day! I hope your day and long weekend are filled with love! Thank you to those who thought of me and my weakness for sweets!:)

 

As for E.L.A., please have read Part Three Chapters Three through Seven (pages 92 through 119) in Trash and bullet point summarize each chapter (think big details!) by Wednesday 2/19/20.

 

-Mrs. Daugherty

Make sure to have read in Trash Part One Chapters 5 and 6 and all of Part Two (chapters one through four) and bullet-point summarize all of these chapters. I will be checking this on Tuesday and it counts as a grade! 

7th Grade D.O.L. Week 16 – Geography Facts - Corrected sentences for Friday 1/31/2020 Test

-Greenland, the largest island in the world, is administered by Denmark.

-The Petrified Forest, located in the Painted Desert of Arizona, is a whole forest of trees turned to     stone by ancient volcanic lava.

-One-half of the people of Nevada live in Las Vegas, and the other half live outside it.

-Mt. Vesuvius, the only active volcano in Europe, erupted and completely buried the city of Pompeii, Italy, in C.E. 79.

-Iraq has been the world’s leading exporter of an edible natural resource: dates.

 

Tonight if you did not finish in class, please mark passages in Props for Faith story where the main character, Hanna, B=believes or D=doubts something. Mrs. Daugherty will be checking on Wednesday in class. We will discuss on Thursday.

 

Corrected Sentences 7th Grade D.O.L. Week 15 – Around the World - for test Friday 1/24/20

For Thursday, please go to your Google Classroom and #1 - Read Two Activism Sources Articles. #2 - Use the 'list three sources with links' assignment to show me three sources you would use for your teen activism paper. Give me the link by copying the URL and pasting it on the given google form. Then briefly list who, what, when, where, why and how about the source you referenced/gave the link to me. These are due by class time on Thursday.   

For Tuesday 1/14/20 - Have your rough draft completed in your notebook answering the question about "This is my mother:" from The First Day. You will be peer-editing on Tuesday. I will be checking that it is completed before you start editing. The completed final copy will be turned in on Wednesday - hand-written with correct spelling and punctuation.

 

Corrected Sentences - 7th Grade D.O.L. Week 14 – Animals Great and Small

 

Do you know that the smallest dinosaurs were about the size of chickens?

A giant anteater’s diet consists of up to 30,000 ants in a single day.

I saw the giant panda at the zoo ( ; or . if period, then capitalize I in it’s ) it’s related to the raccoon, not the bear.

Like birds and other animals, fish build nests (. or ;) Siamese fighting fish, for example, build nests of air bubbles.

A bullfrog can lay 20,000 eggs at once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7th Grade D.O.L. Week 13 Corrected Sentences – Animal Facts

 

If iguanas wore suits, they’d need creative tailors since their bodies are two-thirds tail.

Although the blue whale looks like a very large fish, it is actually a humungous mammal (it can reach lengths of 95 feet or more).

Did you know that the blue whale’s heart is about the size of a subcompact car?

Wow! A butterfly tastes its food by stepping on it.

Just like human fingernails, rattlesnake scales are made of keratin.

7th grade Week Fifteen Vocabulary –
The First Day

 

Plait
Liable
Absently
Strewn
Possessively
Enunciate
Immunization
Diseased
Education
School

Complete pages 25, 26 and 27 in Holt Workbook for Tuesday 12/3/19.

 

There will be a test this Thursday (12/5/19) on Red Scarf Girl - we will discuss Tuesday and Wednesday. Review your chapter summaries and vocabulary from Quizlet. 

 

Corrected Sentences for Friday's Test -

7th Grade D.O.L. Week 11 – Animal Trivia
Aha! Here’s a little-known fact: starfish breathe through their feet.
Does a cricket sing with its wings and hear with its legs?
Neither my intelligent brother nor his brainy friends know that birds have three eyelids on each eye.
A cat’s grace comes from its having 250 bones in its body (20 in its tail alone).

Cats may have nine lives, but they have only four rows of whiskers.

 

Vocabulary for this Friday's Test - 

For Wednesday 12/4/19, complete pages 28, 29 & 30 in Holt grammar workbook. Use pages 30 through 34 in textbook for reference to complete. 

Have read and summarized in Reading Notebook Red Scarf Girl Chapter 12. 

Vocabulary Words Week Ten - Red Scarf Girl - Test on Friday after D.O.L. Test

 

Read and summarize Chapters 10 and 11 in Red Scarf Girl. Be ready to show Mrs. Daugherty your summaries. 

Social Change in the United States...

You are going to write one paragraph in which you will find and explain what occurred in one case of young people (25 years old and younger) participating in a social change movement in the United States. What did they hope to achieve and what were their roles in the movement? Turn in Wednesday 11/6/19 on loose leaf – you can print if you want (12 point font, double spaced, spelling and grammar checked).

Begin on Monday night and bring any questions to class on Tuesday 11/5/19. 

There will be NO D.O.L./ Vocabulary Test this coming Friday 11/1/19. Students took ACT Aspire Interim Exam in E.L.A. today for entire class period. As Halloween is on Thursday night - when I am certain the students would all want to be studying rather than trick-or-treating:) - and our shortened schedule on Friday for Noon All Saints Day Mass, we are taking a break this week. 

-Mrs. Daugherty

7th Grade Week Seven D.O.L. – At the Turn of the Century - Corrected Sentences for D.O.L. Test Friday 10/25/19

 

My history teacher said, “In the Civil War, two men died of disease, unfortunately, for every soldier killed in battle.”

 

Hiram Revels was the first African American senator. He was the Mississippi Republican senator from 1870 to 1871.

 

More than 25 million immigrants entered the United States between 1870 and 1916.

 

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

 

At the turn of the century, the average laborer got up early each day, worked 60 hours a week, and made about 20 cents an hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will be out of school this Wednesday through Friday. Please study for D.O.L. and Vocabulary tests on Friday 10/25/19. Information on D.O.L. and Vocabulary words posted on this blog. Please also see the previous post regarding very detailed information on two paragraphs about The Red Scarf Girl which are due to the substitute tomorrow, 10/23/19. I will return on Monday 10/28/19. 

7^th Grade Week Six Corrected D.O.L. Sentences: In the 1800s for Test Friday 10/18/19

By the 1820s, the average American was drinking seven gallons of pure alcohol every year.

In 1835, Oberlin College became the first college to admit women.

Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, led a slave revolt in 1831; besides 60 white Virginians, 20 black slaves also died.

The Mexican-American War ended in 1848, and the United States gained 525,000 square miles of territory from Mexico.

Early in the Civil War, African Americans from the North tried to enlist. The Union army, however, rejected them at first.

 

ATTENTION, please! 7TH GRADE STUDENTS NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOK 'RED SCARF GIRL -A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution' by Ji-Li Jiang. The ISBN number is 978-0-06-446208-2. I would like students to have the book by next Monday, September 30th. The book is available online, at bookstores and at used books stores. Students need a clean copy - no previous highlighting or notations in the margins, so please do not reuse books from siblings or other sources. Thank you!

 

Here are corrected sentences for Week Three Daily Oral Language Quiz on Friday 9/27/19:

 

ATTENTION, please! 7TH GRADE STUDENTS NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOK 'RED SCARF GIRL -A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution' by Ji-Li Jiang. The ISBN number is 978-0-06-446208-2. I would like students to have the book by next Monday, September 30th. The book is available online, at bookstores and at used books stores. Students need a clean copy - no previous highlighting or notations in the margins, so please do not reuse books from siblings or other sources. Thank you!

 

 

I was out ill both Friday and Monday - along with the whole weekend:( I apologize if you contacted me those days and I did not respond. Getting better and back in class today!

 

Here are this week's Corrected D.O.L. Sentences and Vocabulary Words for Quiz on Friday 9/20/19:

 

7th Grade Week Two D.O.L. – A Medley

 

 

Complete Holt Grammar Workbook Pages 14, 15, 17 and 20 (NOT 16, 18 or 19). We will correct all pages on Thursday and I will collect page 20. Also, have all of your vocabulary words defined in your Grammar Notebook - I will be checking they are completed Thursday. 

 

The D.O.L. and Vocabulary quizzes will be Friday so STUDY TONIGHT as well as Thursday night! The more exposure your brain has to information, the better you will know it!