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= = =**//Period 1/2 English 7th://**= .//**Welcome Parents and Students:**// This 7th grade English Course is designed to place emphasis on Standards Based Education, with lessons geared around four areas in the California State Standards Framework: //Reading, writing, speaking and listening//. Lessons are strategically planned to cover the State Standards. Most of the emphasis will be placed on taking a critical look at reading and writing strategies and techniques, then analyzing and responding to various works of literature. Key areas of emphasis are: __//**HOMEWORK**//__: Students are required to read 20 to 30 minutes a night. Reading logs are issued to students on Monday and turned in the following Monday with the parents signature. Due Monday, November 9th - Summary on the article, "Triumph Over Tourettes" Additional homework is given based on the assignment for the week, usually three times a week.
 * 1.0 Clarify word meaning through the use of definition, example, restatement, or contrast. ||
 * 2.3 Analyze text that uses the cause and effect organizational pattern. ||
 * 3.3 Analyze characterization as delineated through a character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator’s description; and the thoughts, words and actions of other characters. ||
 * 1.1 Create organizational structure that balances all aspects of the composition and uses effective transitions between sentences to unify important ideas. ||
 * 2.0 Students will write narrative, expository, persuasive and descriptive texts of at least 500 to 700 words in each genre.

//__**NOVEMBER PROJECT:**__ (**Reading response to literature)**// Book Report Mosaic due November 30, 2009 - Students received template and instructions on Friday, November 6, 2009.

//**__Homework__**// - Monday, November 9, 2009: (Extended to TUESDAY) Complete summary writing assignment, "Triumph Over Tourettes" turn in Tuesday. //**Homework**// - Thursday, November 12, 2009: "Reread the persuasive text, "Girls in the Huddle" answer the four questions, What makes this article persuasive? ||

=//Periods 3,(7th) 4 and 6 (8th) -Jamestown Reading Navigator - An online computer literacy program://=
 * Students can log on to Jamestown Reading by going into www.jrnstudent.com.