Welcome to Ms. Brescia's Online Classroom 2010-2011!
WEEK 1: Creating a positive classroom environment.
Short story, "Seventh Grade"
Sensory Language: descriptive details using the five senses.
Setting: time and place.
Proof reading your work: check for spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, organization, word choice.
WEEK 2: Discover word meaning through use of context clues.
"Seventh Grade"
Vocabulary: Bluff, conviction, elective, ferocity, linger, portly, quiver, scowl, sheepishly,
trudge
Pronouns cannot be used until the noun has first been introduced.
WEEK 3: Writing BAT Test I
Six Active Reading Strategies: Question, Clarify, Visualize, Predict, Connect, Evaluate.
Short story, "Dirk the Protector"
Vocabulary: Cohorts, COMPATIBLE, conventional, "stay above water", predatory,
impasse, brindled
Figurative Language: Idioms
WEEK 4: BAT Testing I Reading and Math
Textbook Scavenger Hunt - develop reference and research skills.
Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Idiom, Symbol, Analogy
Poetry: "Good Hot Dogs", "Scaffolding"
WEEK 5: Short Story, "Amigo Bothers"
Vocabulary: Barrage, bedlam, contradict, dispel, evading, feint, game, improvise, pensively, perpetual, unbridled
Continue to develop active reading skills
Early Release: Cooperation and 9/11
Continue to develop students' active reading skills.
WEEK 6 Short Story, "Amigo Bothers"
Literary terms: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, resolution.
Vocabulary: barrage, pensively, perpetual, unbridled, improvise, dispel, feint, bedlam, evading, game
Context Clue notes. Start context clue project.
WEEK 7 Modern Fable: "The Richer, the Poorer", Aesop's fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper"
Compare and Analize Literature
Literary terms: genre, fable, moral
Vocabulary: enhanced, frugally, self-denial, sentimental, whim, WOW - perceive
Read about the author: Aesop, Dorothy West
Background knowledge: The Harlem Renaissance
Continue Context Clue notes and project:
Six Types of Context Clues: Definition and Restatement, Example, Comparison, Contrast, Cause/Effect and Inference from general context. See link below to download Context clue notes.
HOMEWORK: Create Test Questions with Answers.
Create a speech about what you believe -- The value of work and play.
support your argument with examples from the fables. Remember, just like
an essay, a speech needs a strong beginning, middle and end.
WEEK 8 Short Story: "Names/Nombres"
Literary Terms: Personal Essay, Author's Purpose, Theme
Vocabulary: chaotic, convoluted, ethnicity, exotic, inevitably, initial, ironically, merge, specify, usher
Reading Comprehension strategy: Connect and visualize background information.
Context Clues: Finish project
HOMEWORK/CLASSWORK: Names Project: Research Family Names. Create a presentation about the name(s) you've chosen. Incorporate at least five new vocabulary words.
WEEK 9: Poem: "Ode to an Artichoke"
Literary Terms, a review: Metaphor, personification, analogy
Reading Comprehension: Visualizing imagery
How do you mindmap? A fabulous, creative thinking tool.
Word Parts - another type of context clue
Download files on the link below.
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