Lesson Plans
Teacher: Ivey
Course: 7th Language Arts
Dates: 8/11 - 8/15
Day 1 (8/11)
Day 2 (8/12)
Day 3 (8/13)
Day 4 (8/14)
Day 5 (8/15)
Learning
Targets
I can provide justification
for an opinion and
prediction.
I can create a prediction
based on evidence from
text.
I can create and identify
ideas important for a
summary of text.
I can identify ideas important
for a summary of text.
I can tell the difference
between a theme and main or
central idea.
I can collaborate with a
classmate to find evidence in a
text to support the development
of a theme.
I can make inferences and
provide evidence and
justification for them.
I can collaborate with a
classmate to find evidence in
a text to support the
development of a theme.
I can demonstrate
comprehension of my summer
reading novels through writing.
Bell ringer
Anticipation guide for The
Outsiders
Summarizing Practice: Read a
sample paragraph and pick a
list of key ideas that would be
important to a summary
Inferences introduction: Text
bubble creations for
photographs
Week-End Wrap-Up: Practice
with summarizing, predicting,
and making inferences
Lesson
 Four Corners activity
discussing anticipation
guide for The Outsiders
 Read section 1 of The
Outsiders
 “Talk and Text”
walkabout reading
response
Summary Circle: Create a
list of important characters
we have met in the novel
and important events in the
plot
 Share summary points
in the “Summary
Circle”
 Share and discuss
yesterday’s predictions
and continue reading
section 2 of The
Outsiders
Exit Ticket: Create a
prediction for what might
occur next in the novel
giving a justification for
why you think this
 Return signed Learning
Contract and class fee by
next Friday, August 15
 Finish any summer
reading and review your
2 novels for the test this
Friday, August 15
 Oral and written informal
assessments
 Inferences mini-lesson:
View “For the Birds” Pixar
clip and create justifications
for inferences
 Read selected quotes from
The Outsiders and work
with a partner to create
inferences with evidence for
justification
 Continue reading section 4
of The Outsiders
Partner and record new
evidence of themes on Theme
Trackers handout
 Summer Reading
Assessment on 2 of the
following novels: Skeleton
Creek (Book 1 ONLY),
Among the Hidden (Book 1
ONLY), Savvy, Middle
School: Worst Years of My
Life (Book 1 ONLY),
Fablehaven (Book 1 ONLY)
Closing
 Review summarizing
exercise
 Review yesterday’s exit
ticket
 Pair and Practice:
differentiate between a
theme and main or central
idea, review with Interactive
Venn Diagram
 Continue reading section 3
of The Outsiders
Partner and record evidence of
themes on Theme Trackers
handout and review as a class
Homework
Assessments
Exit Ticket: Practice
identifying key points of a
summary for today’s
section of reading
See previous day
 Oral and written
informal assessments
 Exit ticket
See previous day
 Oral and written informal
assessments
See previous day
 Oral and written informal
assessments
“Feel Good Friday” and
Friday Book Talk: That Was
Then, This Is Now
Enjoy your weekend, and
check out more S.E. Hinton
books!
 Summer Rdng. Assessment
 Week-End Wrap-Up
Competency/Objective
Common Core
RL.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary.
SL.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others ideas
and expressing their own clearly.
RL/I. 1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text states explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL/I. 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the end of the high range.
RL/I. 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the end of the high range.
W.9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.