7th Grade
English Course Syllabus 2013-2014
Mrs. Shannon Cannon
Term 1
Monday, 8/19 – Introductions
Homework:
ME #1 – Self-Portrait Poem – Due Monday, 8/26
Tuesday, 8/20 – Discuss Class Content
Wednesday, 8/21 – Start Little
Britches in class
Homework:
Finish reading and annotating Ch.1
Thursday, 8/22 – Start Writing Journals
Homework:
Read and annotate Little Britches (LB)
Ch. 2
Friday, 8/23 – Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Learning to write open-ended questions
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 3
Monday, 8/26 – Discuss Little Britches
Turn in ME #1
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 4; ME #2 – Gus, Don’t Be A… - Due Thursday, 8/29
Tuesday, 8/27 – Start Poetry Unit
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 5
Wednesday, 8/28 – Metaphors
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch.6; ME #3 - List Poem – Due Thursday, 9/5
Thursday, 8/29 – Discuss Little Britches
Turn in ME #2
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 7
Friday, 8/30 – No class (B day)
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 8-10
Tuesday, 9/3 – Discuss Little Britches
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 11
Wednesday, 9/4 – Similes
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch.12; ME #4 – Brainstorm for Photograph Poem – Due Thursday, 9/12
Thursday, 9/5 – Discuss Little Britches
Turn in ME #3
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 13
Friday, 9/6 – Tower of Abstraction - Sensory Details
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 14-15
Monday, 9/9 – Onomatopoeia - Bring a noise - Writing
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch.16
Tuesday, 9/10 – Discuss Little Britches
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 17
Wednesday, 9/11 – Sensory
Imagery, Show Not Tell
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 18; ME #5 – Photograph Poem – Due Thursday, 9/19
Thursday, 9/12 – Discuss Little Britches
Turn in ME #4
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch.19-21, Complete Reading Log
Friday, 9/13 – B Day (No Class)
Monday, 9/16 – Allusion
Turn in Reading Log through Chapter 21
Turn in Reading Log through Chapter 21
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch.22
Tuesday, 9/17 – Discuss Little Britches
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch.23
Wednesday, 9/18 – Personification
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch.24; ME #6 – Poem – Due Thursday, 9/26
Thursday, 9/19 – Discuss Little Britches
Turn in ME #5
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 25
Friday, 9/20 – Poetic Devices in
Real Life
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 26-27
Monday, 9/23 – Alliteration
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 28
Tuesday, 9/24 – Discuss Little Britches
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 29
Wednesday, 9/25 – Writing Final
Poems
Homework:
Read and annotate LB Ch. 30; ME #7 – Final Draft Poem – Due Thursday, 10/3
Parent/Teacher
Conferences
Thursday, 9/26 – Poetry Unit Quiz
Homework: Read
and annotate LB Ch. 31
Parent/Teacher
Conferences
Friday, 9/27 – B Day (No Class)
Monday, 9/30 – Little
Britches Final Test and Discussion
Tuesday, 10/1 – Start White
Indian Boy
Homework: Read and annotate WIB Ch. 1-3
Wednesday, 10/2 – Start Story Writing and Elements of
Fiction – Plot
Homework:
Read and annotate WIB Ch. 4-6
Thursday, 10/3 – Conflict in Fiction
Turn in
ME #7 – Final Draft of Poem
Homework:
Read/annotate WIB Ch.7-9; ME #8 – Advice Column Letter – Due Wednesday, 10/9
Friday, 10/4 – Protagonist/Antagonist
Homework:
Read and annotate WIB Ch. 10-12
Monday, 10/7 – Point of View
Homework:
Read and annotate WIB Ch. 13-15
Tuesday, 10/8 – Show Not Tell
Homework:
Read and annotate WIB Ch. 16-18
Wednesday, 10/9 – Character Writing
Turn in
ME #8 – Advice Column Letter
Homework:
Read & annotate WIB Ch. 19-21; ME
#9 - Write a Character – Due Thursday,
10/17
Tuesday, 10/15 – Character Writing continued
Homework:
Read and annotate WIB Ch. 22-25
Wednesday, 10/16 – School Testing
Thursday, 10/17 – White
Indian Boy Final Test and Discussion
Turn in
ME #9
Homework:
ME #9 – Write a Protagonist – Due Thursday, 10/24
Friday, 10/18 – B Day – End of Term 1
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