August 31-September 4

Monday, August 31
Due: look at your list and choose your story idea. Write about your thinking/thought process. What meaning does your story have for you? For your readers? 

Make sure you have turned in your Reading Goal sheet! 

• Turn in story choice
• Library
• "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
• "We can cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says and inferences drawn from the text." (RL.7.1)
• review Contrasts & Contradictions signpost
• read story
• identify C & C

Homework: finish reading, Contrasts & Contradictions page if needed

Tuesday, September 1

DUE: Contrasts & Contradictions page

• "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
• "We can cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says and inferences drawn from the text." (RL.7.1)
• work on writing text-based answers
• Writer's Workshop: Developing Believable Characters through Scene Boot Camp
• "We can use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop characters." (W.7.3b)

Homework: imagine and write your character into an everyday scene, jot down their thoughts, feelings, and actions. 

Wednesday, September 2

DUE: Character scene

• "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
• "We can analyze how elements of a story interact (i.e. how setting shapes characters or plot)." (RL.7.3)
• Identify story elements, determine theme

• Writer's Workshop: Giving Characters Struggles and Motivations that Mirror Real Life
• "We can use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop characters." (W.7.3b)

Homework: finish fleshing out your characters, have characters ready for action tomorrow! 

Thursday, September 3

• "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
• "We can determine a theme and analyze its development over the course of the text." (RL.7.2)
• identify theme, cite textual evidence for that theme 
• Writer's Workshop: Plotting with Tools
• "We can write narratives to develop real or imagined events using... a well-structured plot." (W.7.3)

Homework: finish story arcs, write a one-sentence summary of your story

Friday, September 4

• Inside-Outside Circle: share one-sentence summary
• Set up Google Classroom
• Study Island pre-test