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schnellet	Mrs. Schnelle
Indian Trail Middle School	Bobcat Hall: 7th Grade Language Arts
http://www.jcschools.org/itms
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Did you notice that I did some Quia cleaning? Hopefully, you will be more easily able to find what you need.

NOTE THAT MY PERSONAL POWERPOINTS WILL BE IN THE "USEFUL LINKS" SECTION. The PORTAPORTAL will have helpful powerpoints and resources, but if you want to see the exact powerpoint from class today, go to the "USEFUL LINKS" and find the date you need.

This website is intended for use by both students and parents. Here, students may play games to preview and review class lessons (and study for tests), check what is due in LA (and what is approaching soon) by going to the class calendar, as well as have direct access to Language Arts resources on the worldwide web.

I hope you find this site a useful tool for success. My Quia page will be updated weekly, so check back often.

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PARENTS, did you know that you can check your student's AR progress from home? If you need information on how to do this, e-mail me at schnellet@jcschools.org. I can attach a document to tell you how. Also, please be advised that students who did not achieve even 50% of his/her quarterly AR Goal will be ineligible until he/she has reached 50% for this, the third quarter.

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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO GET TO THE ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR, STUDY GAMES, LINKS, AND MORE!

Use the drop down menu to visit the class page for Ah Ha, ITMS Library (for AR Home Connect), plus the *NEW* 7th Grade LA Porta Portal with documents, powerpoints, and videos in the event you are absent or just want to review what we did today from home. (Also, you may drop down to access STUDY ISLAND...just use your AR user name and password once you get to the login page.)

*********** Q4 Weeks 4 & 5: Mon 4/18- Friday 4/29*******************

Reading of Avi's NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

Students will be reading as well as responding to comprehension questions, writing prompts, and mini-projects. There will be vocabulary and reading comprehension quizzes.

********** Q4 Week 7, 8 Mon 5/16-Fri 5/26 *********************

Autobiographical Writing Assignments

********** Q4 Week 6 Mon 5/9-Friday 5/13 ********************

Novel Study: "The Night Before Middle School"

********** Q4 Week 5 Mon 5/2-Friday 5/6 **********************

Cinderella Stories of many Cultures, Creative Writing (Creating your own version of a popular tale to present/submit)

********** Q4 Week 4 Mon 4/18-Friday 4/29 ********************

Novel Study: NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, by Avi

********** Q4 Weeks 2-3 Mon 4/4-Friday 4/15 ******************

TCAP REVIEW OF GRAMMAR AND READING, Quarters 2 & 3, TCAP Vocabulary

**********Q4 Week 1 Mon 3/28-Friday 4/1**********************

Reading & Grammar: Review of Quarter 1 Concepts (plot, flashback, foreshadwoing, conflict, setting, theme, main idea, commas, semicolons, colons, underlining/italics, quotations, prepositional phrases, nouns, verbs, subject, predicate, and groups)

In Class Project: Two Minute Talk (in pairs, students are randomly assigned a concept from first quarter to complete a two minute talk, visual aid, and activity)

**********Q3 Week 9 Mon 3/7-Friday 3/11 *********************

Reading: Text Features (Poetry/Prose/Drama, Non-fiction/Fiction, Genres, Autobiography/Biography

Grammar: Double Negatives, Foreign Phrases

AR: Your student should be nearing completion of 100% of AR points for Q3

Ah Ha: Review, but no new word lists

Note: Study Island has review games for content assessed in the Q3 Benchmark, as well as spelling, parts of speech, and other content for TCAPS. Please review a little each night in preparation for assessments that now have more weight in a student's grade. (TCAPs will count 15% toward a student's final grade.)

**********Q3 Week 8 Mon 2/28-Sat 3/5************************

BE SURE TO CHECK STUDY ISLAND FOR QUARTERLY REVIEW AND TCAP REVIEW!

Reading: Persuasion (persuasion types, connotation/denotation, fact/opinion) plus an addendum to the "Would you buy this???" math project

Grammar: Possessive Nouns and Pronouns

**********Q3 Week 7 Mon 2/21-Fri 2/25 **********************

Grammar: Continued practice of complements and objects (hard stuff!)--Test Thursday

Reading: Persuasion Unit begins

Ah Ha: Unit 20 Test (Wed)

**********Q3 Week 6 Mon 2/14-Fri 2/18 **********************

Reading: Reasoning Test

Grammar: Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Predicate Nominatives, and Predicate Adjectives

Other: Ah Ha 19, Counseling Lesson (Tues), LA Progress Report Update (Fri)

**********Q3 Week 5 Mon 2/7-Fri 2/11 **********************

Reading: Reasoning (Inductive, Deductive, False Premise, Fallacies, Inference, Prediction)

Grammar: Objects & Complements (part 1: Direct and Indirect Objects)

**********Q3 Week 4 Mon 1/31-Friday 2/4 *******************

Grammar: None

Reading: Cause and Effect Unit (identification of, classifying as implicit/explicit, examining in fiction and non-fiction texts, classifying prompt words, creating cause/effect sentences)

**********Q3 Week 3: Mon 1/24-Friday 1/28******************

Reading: Speech Test (Tues) and Speeches (Thurs), Cause and Effect

Grammar: Adverbs

Ah Ha: Unit 16 Test (Wed)

**********Q3 Week 2: Thurs 1/13, Friday 1/14, Monday 1/17-Saturday 1/22********

Reading: Speech Unit: Audience/Purpose, Main Idea/Supporting Details, Organization, Delivery, & Summary/Response

Grammar: Adjectives (a la Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson)

******************Q3 Week 1: Tuesday, Jan 4-Thursday, Jan 6, 2011 ********************************

Grammar: Infinitives, Commas II

Reading: Speeches: Purpose, Audience, Thesis, and Main Points

AH HA Week 15 Distributed for test on Wed, 1/12/11

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