Course Syllabus

Welcome to Ms. Jones. ELA class where we believe that ALL children can learn! Below is a link to the course syllabus. Lessons will be posted weekly.

ELA syllabus.docx

 

Week/Lessons

April 1-5

Review for GMAS

Mst 18-22

Complete Informative Essay writing

Msr 11-15

Informative Essay Writing (Hook, Introduction/Background Information, Thesis, Paragraphs (three), Conclusion)

Mar 4-8

Informative Essay Writing (Hook, Introduction/Background Information, Thesis, Paragraphs (three), Conclusion)

Feb 25-Mar 1

Weekly Spelling Words: rule, tube, huge, prune, amuse, vote, robe, globe, cute, note

Daily Warm-ups will include completing sentences, pronouns, figurative language, analogies, connotation, dangling and misplaced modifiers, complex and compound sentences.

Comparing and Contrasting review

Complete analyzing text-Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves

 Writing: Writing narratives

Feb 18-22

Continue  last weeks lesson:

Spelling words: tone, tune, nose, home, June, joke, phone, awoke, dome, rose

 Daily Warm ups include vocabulary, connotation, denotation, analogies, pronunciations, root words, active and passive voice, mood, and figurative language

Achieve 3000- Lab Reading and comprehension

6^th-Reading: Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves, Destruction in 12 Countries-Read and analyze text- focus-Cause and Effect relationships

Vocabulary: rupture, gauge, traumatize, antibiotic, degradation, magnitude

8^th- Reading-The Whistle-read and analyze, main focus-citing evidence

Feb 11-15

Spelling words: revive, complete, beside, amaze, disgrace, replace, campfire, bike, kite, lake

 Daily Warm ups include vocabulary, connotation, denotation, analogies, pronunciations, root words, active and passive voice, mood, and figurative language

Achieve 3000- Lab Reading and comprehension

6^th-Reading:  Begin Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves, Destruction in 12 Countries-Read and analyze text- focus-Cause and Effect relationships

Vocabulary: rupture, gauge, traumatize, antibiotic, degradation, magnitude

8^th- Reading-The Whistle-read and analyze, main focus-citing evidence

Feb 4-8

Grammar and composition warm-ups

Achieve 3000

Constructed responses (on you own)

Jan. 28-Feb 1

Grammar and composition warm ups

Achieve 3000 Lab

Cont. Writing Constructed responses together

Jan 22-25

Grammar and composition warm-ups

Spelling Words-could, been, having, would, have, were, should, we’re, did, has- no quiz on words this week, but we are reviewing and spelling them daily.

RACES (restate question, answer question, cite textual evidence, explain, summarize) review and complete examples

Achieve 3000-Reading and comprehension

Jan 14-18

Reading: Re-Read Views on Zoo’s, Sonia’s Blog, and Innocent and Imprisoned-Complete analyzing in Close Reader and review vocabulary words and weekly spelling words.

Flocabulary- Author’s purpose-listen to song and complete interactive games

Jan 9-11

Grammar and composition review

Dec 17-21

Achieve 3000 (Reading and Comprehension)

Reading: Compare and contrast two versions of and excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Writing- Guided narrative writing-Christmas Holiday

Viewing: Disney- A Christmas Carol

Dec 10-14

Daily Grammar/composition

6-8^th- We will continue working on argumentative writing as we did not get the chance to cover much last week. Many students had to complete their informative/expository writing. We will discuss claims, counter claims/rebuttals and complete a debate during class.

Lab-Achieve 3000 (Monday and Thursday) reading and comprehension- students who receive 75% or higher grade will receive points for their house.

Spelling Words: We did not quiz on last week’s words, so we will quiz on them this Friday along with five words from this week’s list. Again, this is not for a grade, only to help students improve their spelling. Words remain on board each day for students to review.

Afraid, away, empty, every, extra, narrow, fresh, plastic, biggest, different, rocks, upset, until, fox, stop

Dec 3-7

ELA 6^th- 8th

Achieve 3000- Monday

Achieve 3000 (Boost) Thursday)

Daily Language Warm-ups

Begin Argumentative Writing- Claims and Counter Claims

More Guided Essay Writing

Library- Tuesday; Students will check out books and may purchase items from our book fair.

Spelling words: afraid, away, empty, every, extra, narrow, fresh, plastic, biggest, different

Nov 26-Nov 30

 Daily Language Warm-up

Weekly Spelling Test (Students who score 100 receive extra points for their House)

After, ask, happen, entered, next, present, zipper, dinner, pillow, ill

6^th&7th

Complete Daily Grammar and Composition activities: figurative language, pronouns

Words used in this week’s activities: impolite, midway, impatient, midsection, midterm, impartial, epilogue, dialogue

Review sentence structure

Expository Essay- guided writing

8^th-

 Daily Language Grammar and Composition Activities: Pronouns, Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives, Prepositional Phrase, Sentences (Simple, Compound, Complex)

 Review sentence structure

Argumentative Essay- guided

Computer Lab Monday and Thursday (Achieve 3000)

Nov. 13-17

 Continue Daily Language Warm-up

Weekly Spelling Test (Students who score 100 receives extra points for their House)

Words: cash, track, spell, snack, leg, trash, ship, egg, trip, well

6^th&7th

Complete Daily Grammar and Composition activities: Pronouns, Prefixes (im (not), mid (middle) Figurative Language (Simile, Alliteration), word meanings: dictation, illegal, illegible, postpone, postmark, indictment, postdate, edict

Review Conflict (Internal and External), Theme

Reading: The Wonder Horse by Sabine R. Uilbarri,  Re-read and review for quiz which will be Thursday . Any students who do not make a passing grade will retake the quiz Friday. CORRECTION: Quiz Friday, we will attend the Lab Thursday for Achieve 3000 Boost.   Attached below is a study link for the quiz.

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5acb676b0a619b0019add072/collections-my-wonder-horse

We will also begin watching the movie Spirit: The Stallion of Cimarron. We will compare and contrast the movie to our current story.

8^th-

 Daily Language Grammar and Composition Activities: Pronouns, Participles, Gerunds, Infinitives, Voice (Active and Passive), Dangling Modifiers

 Reading: The Whistle by Anne Estevis (complete reading and analyzing text), Begin guided Expository Essay writing.

 

Nov 5-9

Daily Grammar

Complete paragraphs if not complete

Read and analyze text-The Wonder Horse (6th/7th)

Read and analyze text-The Whistle (8th)

Intro to Essay Writing (Expository)

Oct 29-Nov 2

Daily Grammar

Paragraph Writing: If I could change a school rule/policy, I would.....

Achieve 3000

Oct 22-26

ELA: Achieve 3000 Article- Reading and comprehension

All grades will continue paragraph writing.

Oct 15-19

ELA (6^th - 8^th)

ELA QBA- Monday

The writing Process: We will begin by reviewing writing correct sentences (correcting run-on and fragments)

 Writing Paragraphs-We will view hamburger paragraph video and ppt (can search and view at home as well); Identify main points and writing topic sentences, write a paragraph from guided paragraph writing; write a paragraph from given topic.

Oct 8-12

Revision: Due to the weather, schools are closed tomorrow; and therefore, we will not be able to complete some tasks including scheduled tests this week. The 6^th  and 7^th grade ELA students will complete pronoun cases Friday and begin paragraph writing Monday.  The 8th grade ELA students will begin writing paragraphs leading into essay writing.

6th-7th

Pronoun Cases:  Nominative, Objective, Possessive;

Writing-Review writing  a paragraph (topic sentence, details, concluding sentence)

8^th-

Gerunds, Infinitives,

Writing-Review writing a paragraph(topic sentence, details, concluding sentence)

Oct 1-5

All students complete daily grammar and composition daily activities

Achieve 3000- Reading and comprehension in computer lab- (The Art of Reading, pertinent vocabulary-budget, collaborate, initiative, integrate, intrigue)

 

6^th and 7^th

Point of View- 1^st Person, 2^nd Person, 3^rd Person (Limited, Objective, Omniscient)

Pronouns cases: Nominative, Objective, Possessive

Reading to determine point of view and pronoun cases

8^th

Theme (What is theme, determining the theme from readings passages)

Infinitives function

Read and analyze: Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, Vocabulary: poignant, perverse, degradation, ostensible, bravado, squalor, retribution, impotent, stoicism, exuberance

 

September 24-28

Complete Daily Grammar and Composition activity: parts of speech, possessive nouns, past tense verbs, dialogue

Achieve 3000- Reading and comprehension in computer lab- (The Library Bus, pertinent vocabulary-illiterate, profound)

Figurative Language Review: Any students who did not make a passing grade on quiz last Friday will be allowed to complete a figurative language matching activity to help increase grade.

Library Tuesday- Students are encouraged to check out books on their reading level or slightly above for success and challenge when reading.

Reading: Close Reader- Face Your Fears and Scare the Phobia Out of Your Brain-Read and analyze text by citing textual evidence. Vocabulary: exposure, dormant, innocuous, stimulate

Sep 17-21- continue lessons from last week

Achieve 3000- Reading and comprehension in computer lab

Figurative Language Review: Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Cliché’, Proverb, Understatement, Oxymoron

Reading- Begin Reading and charting- Fears and Phobias- Online article by Kidshealth.org 

 Quiz will be next Friday.

Sep 11-14

Achieve 3000- Reading and comprehension in computer lab

Figurative Language Review: Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Hyperbole, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification, Cliché’, Proverb, Understatement, Oxymoron

Reading- Begin Reading and charting- Fears and Phobias- Online article by Kidshealth.org 

 Quiz will be next Friday.

Sep 3-6

Daily Grammar/composition warm-up

Continue RACES constructed response from article Dinner from a Dumpster

Read and analyze story, The Jumping Tree

August 27-31

Daily grammar warm-up

Library Orientation

Achieve 3000 assessment

Review and practice RACES- Rewrite question, Answer question, Cite evidence from text/passage, Explain, Summarize  from Articles- Eskimo Life and Dinner from a Dumpster.

Reading (Close Reader Text) The Jumping Tree by Rene Saldana Jr.- if time

 Key Vocabulary: vendors, kindling, mammoth, sidle, contract

August 20-24

Daily grammar/composition warm-ups

 Reading/Analyzing text: The Ravine- Students will read story and make a chart naming/describing the characters, setting, and ending. They will also make inferences about information in the story. 

Vocabulary: indicate, specific, similar, evident, factor, rivulet, precipice, cascade, 

Quiz: Friday

August 13-17

Elements of a story (exposition, plot, conflict, climax, setting, characters, rising and fall action, resolution),review using Cinderella interactive

Other key vocabulary: protagonist, antagonist, internal conflict, external conflict-Quiz Thursday

Inference writing activity

Reading: Facing Your Fear-HMH Collections Text

Aug 8-10

All grades

Class introduction/Class expectations

Review motivational posters

Complete Oral Reading Assessments

Complete All About Me Activity