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litskills7	Mrs. Fahey
Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School	7th-Grade Lit. Skills
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Welcome 7-1 students and parents to Mrs. Fahey's Lit. Skills webpage, where you can view daily our class activities and homework assignments. This site will also keep you posted on team and class projects. Often you will be able to download and print handouts from class during an absence, which will help you keep current.

During the first trimester we will study and apply literacy strategies including making predictions and connections, summarizing, visualizing, questioning, and evaluating.
Vocabulary study includes a weekly packet focusing on a single Greek or Latin root
as well as focus words essential for understanding the class stories, novels, and nonfiction
articles. Our first unit of study will be "Seventh-Grade Snapshots." Within this unit, we study novel excerpts, short stories, and personal essays which reflect the triumphs and pitfalls of life in the seventh grade. Our second unit will focus on Freak the Mighty, a novel on friendship
by Phil Rodrick.

Students are required to have a labeled single-subject spiral and a two-pocket travel folder each day in class. Also, on Mondays and Fridays students participate in silent reading and must carry a self-selected fiction or nonfiction book on these days. On weeknights and weekends students should be reading their AR book at least 20 minutes per night. There is
a weekly weekend response sheet which requires a parent signature.

Each week you will find the daily assignments listed here. Please scroll until you locate today's date. The activities and assignments listed should include any changes from the weekly logbook assignments. The current weekly assignments will appear first. Assignments for the previous week will follow for those who were absent or behind in class work.

This Week's Homework:

Monday, December 1: Students read AR books silently thr;oughout the period.
At-Home Reading logs were submitted to the bin. Students took AR tests over Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam as they finished the novels.

Tuesday, December 2: The Brother Sam group worked on the final open book exam for the novel. They have until Thursday to complete it.
The Johnny Tremain readers worked in pods to create top ten lists for the novel--top 10 characters, settings, objects, and events.
Homework: Students in both groups should review novel characters, dates, and major events for open book final test on Wednesday and Thursday. The bookmark with differences and similarities between today's life style and that of the 1770's is due on Thursday. It requires minimum of 25 differences and 10 similarities with page numbers where facts were found.

Wednesday, December 10: Students are asked to complete previewing worksheets for Brian's Song. Read the handouts and follow instructions provided on front and back. Due Thursday.

Thursday, December 11: Students are completing prereading activities for Brian's Song. Reading parts will be assigned

Friday, December 12: Student read silently in AR books.

Monday, December 15: Students read silently in AR books.
Homework: At -home reading logs due Tuesday.

Tuesday, December 16: Students are reading aloud the teleplay Brian's Song, looking for figurative language examples and studying characterization of the two male leads: Brian Piccolo and Gayle Sayers.

My Quia activities and quizzes

Reading vocabulary #2

http://www.quia.com/cm/184705.html

ELA: Literary Terms

http://www.quia.com/cm/184708.html

ISAT Reading Vocabulary Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1316024.html

Basic Literary Terms

http://www.quia.com/jg/615862.html

Literary Terms

http://www.quia.com/jg/615865.html

Short Story Elements

http://www.quia.com/jg/805762.html

Literature: Character Terminology Review

http://www.quia.com/rr/312165.html

Short Story Elements

http://www.quia.com/quiz/906823.html

FIGURES OF SPEECH

http://www.quia.com/hm/192160.html

ISAT Poetry Terms and Elements

http://www.quia.com/jg/1067213.html

Poetry Terms I

http://www.quia.com/jg/615868.html

Poetry Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1315732.html

ELA: Learning About Words and Language "Literary Terms"

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1316007.html

ISAT Reading Assessment Vocab.

http://www.quia.com/rr/100978.html

Genres of Literature

http://www.quia.com/jg/826009.html

ISAT Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

http://www.quia.com/jg/825844.html

Selected Prefixes

http://www.quia.com/jg/1022537.html

Prefix Skills

http://www.quia.com/jg/1310359.html

Sink those Prefixes!

http://www.quia.com/rr/315987.html

Roots & Prefixes

http://www.quia.com/jg/616113.html

Jeopardy prefixes 1

http://www.quia.com/cb/282460.html

prefixes, suffixes and text structure

http://www.quia.com/rr/315988.html

Suffixes and Their Function

http://www.quia.com/pop/204647.html

Suffixes

http://www.quia.com/rr/353568.html

ELA: Prefix and Suffix Families

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1315703.html

Affix games

http://www.quia.com/jg/786692.html

Greek & Latin Roots Skills

http://www.quia.com/jg/616756.html

Greek & Latin Roots Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1264258.html

GREEK AND LATIN ROOTS

http://www.quia.com/rr/101191.html

Greek & Latin Roots Quiz

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1315725.html

Context Clues Post-Reading

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1140620.html

ELA: Recognizing Context Clue Types

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1268789.html

ELA: Context Clues (Middle School)

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1438684.html

Comprehension: FACT OR OPINION? GAME #1 (QUIZ)

http://www.quia.com/jq/105568.html

Comprehension: FACT OR OPINION? GAME #2 - (copy)

http://www.quia.com/pop/150487.html

Cause and Effect Practice

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1268821.html

Zoom Week~Reading Skills

http://www.quia.com/cb/280330.html

Reading Assessment Vocabulary

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1268785.html

Brian's Song Vocabulary Part I

http://www.quia.com/jg/1394128.html

Brian's Song Vocabulary Part 2

http://www.quia.com/jg/1394129.html

Three Skeleton Key Vocab

http://www.quia.com/jg/1394130.html

All Summer in a Day Activity

http://www.quia.com/jg/1416973.html

Thank You, Ma'm

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1463596.html

Short Story Literary Terms X

http://www.quia.com/jg/1421673.html

Short Story Literary Terms Y

http://www.quia.com/jg/1421674.html

Genres of Literature

http://www.quia.com/jg/1421694.html

Literature: Character Terminology Review

http://www.quia.com/rr/360867.html

Root-of-the-Week "dic/dict"

http://www.quia.com/jw/164031.html

Unscramble letters to create correct spellings of target words

Root of the Week "dic, dict" September 4

http://www.quia.com/hm/328411.html

Use clue to spell out correct target word.

Root of the Week September 4 "dic, dict"

http://www.quia.com/jg/1154689.html

Match target word to its correct definition.

Root-of-the-Week Sept. 4

http://www.quia.com/rr/246061.html

Answer questions about target words to make a million!!!!!

Root-of-the-week #2 Words formed from the root "spec," to see or view

http://www.quia.com/jg/1162997.html

Root-of-the-Week #2 "spec"

http://www.quia.com/rr/248290.html

Root-of-the-week #2 Spec words

http://www.quia.com/hm/330809.html

Root-of-the-Week #2 "spec" Matching

http://www.quia.com/cm/142778.html

Proper Noun Identification

http://www.quia.com/ba/204861.html

Three Skeleton Key

http://www.quia.com/jg/831272.html

Three Skeleton Key Vocab

http://www.quia.com/jg/831306.html

Three Skeleton Key

http://www.quia.com/quiz/741903.html

Verb Phrases

http://www.quia.com/pop/279303.html

ELA: Recognizing Context Clue Types

http://www.quia.com/quiz/1735633.html

Useful links

Last updated 2009/05/31 19:25:24 PDT

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