Hi 7th graders,
What day is it today? (pause for unanimous 7th grade shouted response) Yes! That’s right! It’s ROOTS DAY!…and day three of distance learning. Way to go, team!
Today you have five items for your Literature / ELA To Do List:
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- Corpus quiz (must be completed by 11am, today)
- Notes for your new root – pedis (PEH dees)
- Tangerine reading and discussion questions
- Daily journal entry
- Daily reading
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Let’s get started!
- Corpus quiz – you have several options to complete this:
- Follow the link and take the posted quiz on the “7th grade Lit/ELA” Team page
- Download the quiz here, fill it out, and send it back to me via email. If you choose this option, make sure to include your name at the top of the document!
- Download the quiz, print it, complete it, and email me a picture/scan of it (front and back).
- For all options, you must complete the quiz by 12pm (noon) today.
- New root notes
- I will attempt to post a video version of notes for Pedis by 1pm today. Hooray for trying!
- The PowerPoint notes for Pedis are right here(in case I, or technology, fails in the video lesson attempt)
- Please record the notes in your ELA/Lit. notebook as usual. Make sure to include parts of speech!
- Tangerine reading and discussion questions
- Keep up with the posted Tangerine reading schedule on your bookmark.
- Record your responses to the discussion questions in your Literature notebook
- If you are worried about mixing up your discussion questions and daily journal entries, you could:
- respond to the questions on looseleaf paper that you later glue in to your notebook
- record your discussion responses as normal and put a sticky note/flag/bookmark in the center of your notebook and record your journal entries at that point
- use some other brilliant idea you come up with…as long as it ends with you keeping track of your materials and having hard evidence of your work
- If you are worried about mixing up your discussion questions and daily journal entries, you could:
- Daily Journal entry
- Follow the directions on my teacher page (March 16th)
- Prompt: Describe your new daily routine, start from the moment you wake up, and end when you go to bed. When do you work? What kind of breaks do you take? Do you share a schedule with a family member? Is it similar to the school schedule or completely different? What is your favorite part of the day? Why?
- If you haven’t come up with a schedule, yet, take the opportunity to make one now!
- Daily Reading log
- If you have NOT sent me your reading log:
- Follow the instructions on my teacher page (March 16th) to make your online reading log, fill in your work from the past two days, and share it with me (grzegocki@st-johnschool.org).
- Complete your 30 minutes of reading today and fill out the 3/18 row
- I will be checking logs shortly and entering the points on PowerSchool.
- If you HAVE shared your reading log with me:
- Complete your 30 minutes of reading today and fill out the 3/18 row
- Use a new form of evidence today! For whatever evidence you choose, make sure to explain why it is important to the story / why you chose it.
- Respond to my comments in your reading log (if there are any there).
- You do NOT need to resend your log (unless you really, really want to, or if I send you a message)! You shared the log with me earlier, which means I can view it at anytime. This will save you precious time and me from an exploding inbox – a classic win-win situationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQPNl_h9_wHave fun and let me know if you have questions!
- If you have NOT sent me your reading log: