Week 3.5 - February 22 - 26
Updated: Mar 1, 2021
1st Period: 7th Grade Civics
Monday: Study EOC Flashcards // Landmark Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. Nixon
Tuesday: Study EOC Flashcards // View Voting Rights PowerPoint and use it to fill out guided notes worksheet
Wednesday: Current Event Homework DUE! // Study EOC Flashcards // Finish Voting Rights PowerPoint w/notes // Begin working on “Popular vs. President” iCivics lesson
Thursday: Study EOC Flashcards // Finish “Popular vs. President” iCivics lesson
Friday: Test on EOC Flashcards Sets 1- 9 // Electoral College Game
3rd Period: 6/7th Grade Advanced Reading
Monday: Silent Reading // New Vocab Cards: Paraphrasing // Watch Paraphrasing Flocabulary video and play the vocab game // Begin working on Vocab Cards (due Friday)
Tuesday: Silent Reading // Paraphrasing Read and Respond Worksheet // Review and correct FSA Practice Test
Wednesday: Silent Reading // Paraphrasing Practice: “Let’s Paraphrase” Worksheet
Thursday: Silent Reading // Double Negative Worksheet
Friday: Vocab Test: Paraphrasing // Silent Reading // Mad Libs
4th Period: 8th Grade Reading
Monday: Silent Reading // Double Negative Worksheet // Continue reading The Diary of Anne Frank
Tuesday: Silent Reading // Read "The Diary of a Young Girl" excerpt pg. 410 // Answer Making Meanings questions 1 - 6 on page 412 // Discuss these questions as a class
Wednesday: Silent Reading // Watch "The Short Life of Anne Frank" Documentary
Thursday: Silent Reading // View Anne Frank Secret Annex virtual tour
Friday: Silent Reading // Creative Writing “I Am” poem #3 pg. 413 - students will write an “I Am” poem for Anne Frank using the framework provided on pg. 413
5th Period: Creative Writing
Monday: Quick-write in journals: Too Much Money // Shakespearean MadLibs in groups!
Tuesday: Quick-write in journals // “And Then” Stories in groups
Thursday: Quick-write in journals // Review all stories/poems so far and choose ONE to rewrite/edit for submission to your Creative Writing Portfolio (must be error-free, typed, and polished)
Friday: Free-write Friday!