Friday, September 27, 2013

7th Grade Composition Notebook - 1st Quarter

 Here is the 7th Grade Composition Notebook Point Sheet for in-class activities during the 1st quarter.  Every activity has been reviewed as a class and should be 100% complete.  Students will go through their comp book, page by page, on Monday 9/30.  They have until Friday 10/4 to finish anything that may be incomplete or is missing due to absence.  On Friday, the comp book will be scored.  This gives students the opportunity to earn 100%.
7th Grade Composition Book – 1st Quarter
Score ___/130  Letter Grade ___

Word Study
___/10  p. 1 – doc (includes root, meaning, word, say, spell, definition, activity 1-4)
___/10  p. 2 – clar
___/10  p. 3 – gul
___/10  p. 4 – greg

Journals and Warm-Ups
___/10 p. 35 – “First Thing’s First” (skill notes + 1-5 complete sentences)
___/10 p. 36 – “Addressing Directly” (stapled in, entire sheet complete)
___/10 p. 37 – “Parenthetically Speaking” (1-6)
___/10  p. 38 – “Long and Short of It” (1-5 complete sentences)

Notes and Activities
___/10 p. 81 – The Short Story (2 sections: 9 bullets for section 1 and 4 bullets for sect.2)
___/10 p. 82 – 83 Title and Beginning Paragraph of a Short Story (2 sections: 1-8 for section 1   
                                 and 1-5 for section 2)
___/10 p. 84 – Analyzing Plot in a Short Story (11 highlighted terms and 1 plot diagram)
              p. 85  - may be blank

___/20 p. 86–88 “The Tell- Tale” Heart Discussion Questions (1-13)