Homework
& Class Activities for 7th & 8th Grade English
Mrs. Rice
Week 8,
Quarter 3
Monday 2/29 – 7th Grade (6*, 7*,
1*)
·
SWT 2/29 –
Fortune Generator
·
Root of the Week
#19 – audio
·
Multi-media
review presentation
·
Begin “The Monkey’s
Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
Homework: Using your
homework assignment from last week (see section 4) and your model text, write
the article to go with the interview on page 32 of Feb Scope magazine. Due on Friday 3/4
Monday 2/29 – 8th Grade (2*, 3*,
4* crunch)
·
SWT – Reflection
on Decades Project and Planning for Tomorrow’s Meeting
·
Root of the Week
#19 – audio
·
Multi-Media
Review Presentation
·
Model text for
Article Assignment
Homework: Using your
homework assignment from last week (see section 4) and your model text, write
the article to go with the interview on page 32 of Feb Scope magazine. Due on Thursday 3/3
Tuesday 3/1 – 8th Grade ( 4*)
·
Final Decades
Project Meeting
·
Set up display
board; finalize costume and presentation card; rehearse fashion show
information with group; finalize food samples
Homework: Using your
homework assignment from last week (see section 4) and your model text, write
the article to go with the interview on page 32 of Feb Scope magazine. Due on Thursday 3/3
8th
Grade Reminders:
Decades Day = Tomorrow! Be ready to present your decades clothing.
Don’t be absent!
McQueen Freshmen Night @ McQueen=
Wednesday 3/2
McQueen Freshmen Registration = Thursday
during 2nd period
Tuesday 3/1 – 7th Grade (6*, 7*,
1*)
·
SWT 3/1 – Fortune
Story
·
“The Monkey’s Paw”
by W.W. Jacobs with Group Questions
Homework: Using your
homework assignment from last week (see section 4) and your model text, write
the article to go with the interview on page 32 of Feb Scope magazine. Due on Friday 3/4
Wednesday 3/2 – 8th Grade (2*, 3*,
4*)
·
Decades Day!
Culminating activity for the “Decades of the 20th Century”
interdisciplinary unit.
Homework for English: See Tuesday (due tomorrow)
Wednesday 3/2 – 7th Grade (6*) and
Thursday 3/3 (7*, 1*)
·
SWT – Fortune Story
#2
·
Snowball fight
activity (literary analysis) for “The Monkey’s Paw”
Homework: Using your
homework assignment from last week (see section 4) and your model text, write
the article to go with the interview on page 32 of Feb Scope magazine. Due on Friday 3/4
Thursday 3/3 – 8th Grade (2*, 3*,
4* crunch)
·
2* = McQueen
Freshman Registration (crunch after lunch)
·
Article
Identification activity with homework – then collect
·
Introductory
video of Women in the Workforce during WWII and corresponding play in Scope
magazine
·
2* = Holocaust p.
4-5
·
3*/4* = Intro
video on the European Holocaust
Homework: Read the play
in March Scope on pages 12-19. Complete
the vocabulary and literary element packet.
Due Friday 3/11
Pink freshman registration form for
McQueen due Thursday 3/10
to your advisory teacher.
All make-up/late work for 3rd
quarter English due Friday
3/11.
Friday 3/4 – 7th Grade (6*, 7*,
1*)
·
SWT 3/4
·
Article
Identification activity with homework – then collect
·
Introductory
video of Women in the Workforce during WWII and corresponding play in Scope
magazine
·
The
Simpsons! Pop culture and classic
literature activity with “The Monkey’s Paw”
Homework: Read the play
in March Scope on pages 12-19. Complete
the vocabulary and literary element packet.
Due Thursday 3/10
Friday 3/4 – 8th Grade (2*)
·
SWT –
Understanding the Nuremberg Laws
·
Antisemitic Propaganda
·
Kristallnacht
video
Homework: Read the play
in March Scope on pages 12-19. Complete
the vocabulary and literary element packet.
Due Friday 3/11
Pink freshman registration form for
McQueen due Thursday 3/10
to your advisory teacher.
All make-up/late work for 3rd
quarter English due Friday
3/11.
