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7th Grade Language Arts - Team 2 - North

CLASSWORK:
***READING***

Bring your Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) book to class each day! We will be reading for 10 minutes of class each day until the very last day of school.

Book Report Approval: March 14
Book Report Due: March 28

LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.



InterActive READERS (IAR)
InterActive Readers will be passed out to regular sections on Wednesday, Sept. 20. Students are responsible for keeping the paperback book all year long. A replacement IAR costs $6.50.

LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE
Unit One Selections:
9/20 - "Seveth Grade"
9/22 - "Thank You, M'am"
9/25 - "Zebra"
9/29 - "The War of the Wall"
10/2 - "Rikki Tikki Tavi"
10/9 - Review of stories
10/12 & 13 - Timed Writing Final Evaluation

Unit Two Selections:
1/5 - "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?"
1/8 - from "Immigrant Kids"
1/10 - "Ant and Grasshopper" & "The Richer, The Poorer"
1/12 - "Casey at the Bat"
1/19 - Unit 2 Test

LAC Unit Three Selections:
1/4 - "Ordinary Day, with Peanuts"
1/8 - "Amigo Brothers"
1/10 - "Ode to an Artichoke"; "Winter Poem"; "The Bat"
1/16 - "An American Childhood"
1/19 - Introduce Problem-Solution Essay
1/24 - Problem-Solution Essay Prewriting due
1/30 - Problem-Solution Rough Draft due
2/2 - Prolem-Solution Essay due

Test Strategies
3/23 - Pages 378-379
3/26 - Pages 380-381

***NOVELS***

WALK TWO MOONS
S. Creech
2/14 Novel Test and Study Guides due

LA Challenge Selection:
SPEAK
L.H. Anderson
2/14 - Novel and Study Guides due


***VOCABULARY***
Vocabulary is assigned on Monday; work is due on Thursday (unless otherwise noted).

Vocab 19 due 2/21
Vocab 20 due 3/1
Vocab 21 due 3/15
Vocab 22 due 3/22
Vocab 23 due 3/29
Vocab 24 due 4/5
Vocab 19-24 Review Test 4/12


***LA CHALLENGE VOCABULARY***
Unit 10 Parts 1-2-3 due 2/21
Unit 10 Parts 4-5 due 3/1
Unit 11 Parts 1-2-3 due 3/15
Unit 11 Parts 4-5 due 3/22
Unit 12 Parts 1-2-3 due 3/29
Unit 12 Parts 4-5 due 4/5
Units 10-11-12 Review Test 4/12

***VOCABULARY SENTENCES***
Each week students will write four vocabulary words and one advisory vocabulary word in sentences. Sentences will be used as a part of the grammar lesson that week. All sentences should be in the Language Arts spiral notebook. Sentences are due on Thursdays.


***WRITING***
Timed Writing Number 1
District 742 had 7th graders complete two 40-minute timed writing pieces per year. We wrote our first on 10/12 &1 10/13 as a final evaluation of the five short stores we read in our literature books.

Team Team Application Autobiography
9/15 - Assigned
9/18 - Work Time
9/21 - Rough Draft due in class
***Students who show up with their rough draft ready in class 9/21 will receive participation points. Those students who do not have a rough draft will receive a zero.

Research Biography Paper with Social Studies
3/15 - Final drafts due in LA; turn in packets

***GRAMMAR - LANGUAGE NETWORK (LN)***
Chapter One - The Sentence and Its Parts
Test 11/9

Chapter Eight - Sentence Structure
Test 12/21

Chapter Fourteen - Building Paragraphs
Two final drafts assigned 1/23; due 1/29

Chapter 15 - Organizing Paragraphs
Two Final Paragraphs assigned 2/13; due 2/20

Chapter 11 - Punctuation
This unit was completed independently.
Test on Chapter 11 - 3/16

***EASY GRAMMAR PLUS - LAC CLASS***
Unit One - Prepositions Test 11/2
Unit Two - Verb Test 1/25
Unit Three - Nouns Test 3/22

Unit Four - Parts of Speech
3/27 - Interjections
3/29 - Conjunctions
4/3 - Adjectives
4/5 - Proper Adjectives
4/10 - Predicate Adjectives
4/12 - Degrees of Adjectives



LOOKING AHEAD:
1/22 - Teacher Workshop; No school

1/23 - Quarter Three Begins

1/29 - Orchestra Concert at Apollo

2/1 - Box Top Collections due

2/8 - District Spelling Bee

2/9 - Team Two Talk Time

2/14 - Administrative TSL

2/15 - Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences (4:30-7:30 pm)

2/19 - President's Day; No School

2/27 - Late Start

2/27 - Activity Day

3/5-3/9 - Mid-Winter Break; No School

3/14 - Administrative TSL

3/21 - Early Dismissal

3/22 - Diversty Day

3/30 - End of Quarter Three

Contact Information
Mrs. Amy Laumeyer

North Junior High School
Room 209
1212 29th Avenue North
St. Cloud, MN 56303

320-251-2159 ext. 4209

Prep Time: 1:20 - 2:00

amy.laumeyer@isd742.org

**Miss Hoffarth got married! Offical paperwork and name changes will follow, but students (and Mrs. Laumeyer) are trying to get used to the new name.**

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