Teacher Name: ____Sarah Campbell__
Subject: _____7th Grade Pre-AP English____
Appraiser Name: ____Mrs. Bowes___
Monday/Tuesday November 10-11, 2014
Date: Monday/Tuesday, November 10-11, 2014
Learning goals (ex: at beginning of unit based on pre-assessment)
At the beginning of unit based on pre-assessment, the learning goals include the following:
Reading and writing non-fiction texts with an emphasis on personal narrative.
Objective(s):
The student will be able to identify, articulate, and refine the traits of the fiction genre.
The student will be able to extend evidence and rhetoric in response to argumentation and
evaluation of a fiction text.
The student will be able to logically organize compelling thoughts, opinions, and ideas in
response to a fiction text through the use of setting, characterization, point of view, tone,
mood, and figurative language.
The student will be able to analyze, evaluate, and generate specific details to revise details,
develop ideas, and add sentence variety for expository writing.
Strategy:
The class is designed for group collaboration, independent study, and interest-based initiation
for further research, investigation, and inquiry. Students are assigned seats at centers and are
required to maintain interactive notebooks, data folders, and writing portfolios of published
works. Students must have at least one teacher conference upon readying a piece for
publication. The 6-Traits +1 Writing Packets are available for extension and intervention
depending on student needs covering grammar, organization, voice, rhetoric, literary devices,
and publishing.
Activities
Students sit in assigned seats.
1. Warm-Up (5 minutes)
Vocabulary Unit 4 – Quizlet.com and Vocabulary.com
Write a notecard with the most difficult word for you and a strategy you used to study/master
it.
2. Monster RIP (5 minutes)—Students turn in Monster novels, sign for their book number, and
earn credit for their completed Section by Section Monster Review Packet.
3. Monster Wrap-Up (5 minutes)
Check all outstanding assignments and missing work.
4. Personal Narrative with Extension and Expository Writing (10 minutes)
Prep for writing tests on Thursday and Friday.
5. Homework (5 minutes)
For homework, you will say farewell to Monster in the form of your choice for the following text
structures: a eulogy, elegy, epitaph, or epilogue.
Essential Questions
1. List the ways your emotions have influenced your learning.
Teacher Name: ____Sarah Campbell__
Subject: _____7th Grade Pre-AP English____
Appraiser Name: ____Mrs. Bowes___
2. How does your approach to giving great detail differ from your approach to writing a general
summary or broad statement?
3. Think about the ideas presented your essay. Based on your reading, which details do you
agree with keeping and which do you need to revise? Why?
4. Generate a response to the literature selection to summarize, expand a theme, and validate
with quotes, personal anecdotes, and logical reasoning.
5. Create at least one new details that also incorporates this week’s vocabulary list.
Formative Assessment (Result Indicator):
How will you evaluate the understanding of every student? Ex: clickers, white boards, exit tickets, etc.
(PL-2: Collects, tracks and uses student data to drive instruction)
1. Notecard exit ticket.
2. Share Out from Group Collaboration
Intervention for those that did not meet mastery:
The students have the opportunity to work with peers to enhance their learning. The class is
designed for group collaboration, independent study, and interest-based initiation for further
research, investigation, and inquiry. Students who need additional support may attend
tutorials daily before school, at lunch, and after school.
Enrichment for those that met mastery: The 6-Traits +1 Writing Packets are available for
extension and intervention depending on student needs covering grammar, organization, voice,
rhetoric, literary devices, and publishing.
Homework Extension, Independent practice:
Students will respond to a prompt on Edmodo nightly. Prompts connect with experiences,
family, and college goals.
Monday-Tuesday, November 10-11, 2014 – For homework, you will say farewell to Monster in
the form of your choice for the following text structures: a eulogy, elegy, epitaph, or
epilogue.