Homework
& Class Activities for 7th and 8th Grade English
Week 2,
Quarter 4
Monday, 4/14 – 7th Grade (1*)
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Team Meeting (How
to Work in a Group – Strategies and Activity)
Homework: Spring Break
Extra Credit due tomorrow
RJ week 2 – due on Friday 4/18
Monday, 4/14 – 8th Grade (2*, 3*,
4*)
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Collect Spring
Break Extra Credit (Holocaust Survivor Presentation)
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Hand out
multi-media review book
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8th
Grade Writing Exam Prep (close read, identify and support, create thesis)
Homework: Writing Exam
Tues-Friday (be at school!)
Read 25 min and fill out RJ week 2 – due on Friday 4/18
Tuesday, 4/15 – 7th Grade (6*, 7*,
1*)
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Hand out
multi-media review book
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Collect Spring
Break Extra Credit (RJ)
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Word of the Week,
p. 22
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Finish 1963
Telegram close-read questions in groups – staple to p. 105 of comp book
Homework: Read 25 min
and fill out RJ week 2 – due
on Friday 4/18
Tuesday, 4/15 – Friday 4/18 - 8th Grade (all core classes)
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Collect RJ week 2
on Friday 4/18
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Hand out RJ week
3 on Friday 4/18
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All 8th
grade classes Tues-Friday = writing exam in 600-hall lab (informative essay)
Homework: This week =
Read 25 min and fill out RJ week 2 – due on Friday 4/18
RJ week 3 = due Thursday 4/24 (2*, 3*) and Friday 4/25 (4*
only)
Wednesday, 4/16 – 7th Grade (6*,
7*, 1*)
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Begin The
Watsons go to Birmingham; 1963 and Figurative Language Chart
(idiom,
simile, alliteration examples filled out from chapter 1)
Homework: Read 25 min
(or more!) and fill out RJ week 2 – due Friday 4/18
Thursday, 4/17 – 7th Grade (6*)
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Team Meeting
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Hand out and
review “Touring Nevada” interdisciplinary unit packet and calendar
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Groups assigned
Homework: Finish RJ and
get signed! Due tomorrow
Friday , 4/18 – 7th Grade (6*, 7*,
1* crunch)
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Collect RJ week 2
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Hand out and
review RJ week 3
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Brainstorm – 2 possible
Tour Company names for IDU
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Begin Watsons
chapter 2 and Fig. language chart (stapled to p. 106)
Homework: Read 25 min
and fill out RJ week 3 – due
next Friday 4/25
T-shirt and Bumper Sticker for IDU due next Wed 4/23 at end of team
meeting
