1st Period: 7th Grade Civics
Monday: Study EOC Flashcards // Read The Great State iCivics lesson
Tuesday: Study EOC Flashcards // Complete The Great State activity pages
Wednesday: Current Event Homework DUE! // EOC pop quiz! // The Great State Review Slideshow
Thursday: Study EOC Flashcards // Read The State Governor iCivics Lesson reading pages and board game instructions // Trashketball on all EOC terms
Friday: Test on EOC Flashcards Sets 1- 9 // Play The State Governor board game
3rd Period: 6/7th Grade Advanced Reading
Monday: Silent Reading // New Vocab Cards: Summarizing // Play vocab game and begin working on vocab cards
Tuesday: Silent Reading // Complete Summarizing Read and Respond worksheet and review as a class
Wednesday: Silent Reading // Students complete Sum It Up! Summarizing practice worksheets independently
Thursday: Silent Reading // Reading Team Meetings - Map out who reads what on your team for the rest of the year! Who still needs to reach 20 books for their challenge? What genres does your team still need to read to complete your Genre Wheel? Set a date for our Pizza Party!
Friday: Vocab Test: Summarizing // Silent Reading // Mad Libs
4th Period: 8th Grade Reading
Monday: Silent Reading // Holocaust Remembrance writing activity
Tuesday: Watch The Boy in the Striped Pajamas movie
Wednesday: Watch The Boy in the Striped Pajamas movie
Thursday: Silent Reading // Students work in groups to answer in-depth review questions from the movie
Friday: Holocaust Read and Respond Worksheet
5th Period: Creative Writing
Monday: Quick-write in journals // Tall Tales and Short Stories exercise: Students play 2 truths, 1 lie
Tuesday: Quick-write in journals // Choose 1 statement from yesterday’s game (either true or false) and expand it into a short story
Thursday: Quick-write in journals // Finish and submit your Tall Tales story
Friday: Free-write Friday! The first submission to the Creative Writing portfolio is DUE (must be typed and shared via Google docs).