Q2W4, November 7 – 11

Analyze the impact of setting on character development and plot in a literary text.

(ELA.7.R.1.1)

Integrate academic vocabulary appropriate to grade level in speaking and writing.

(ELA.7.V.1.1)

Apply knowledge of context clues, figurative language, word relationships, reference

materials, and/or background knowledge to determine connotative and denotative

meaning of words and phrases, appropriate to grade level. (ELA.7.V.1.3)

Students will use a graphic organizer evidence tracker to keep track of evidence as you prepare
for the response to literature writing.

Students will determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development
over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

Students will analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how
setting shapes the characters or plot)

ELA CLASSES

Monday

• Bellringer (Act 1 questions)
• Read “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” Act 2 (Scenes 1 and 2) 
• Fill in Text Evidence Trackers. Evidence-Tracker Student Copy

Tuesday

• No School 

Wednesday 

• DEAR TIME (20 minutes)
• TCT (Topics, Conflicts, and Themes) Handout and TCT Pyramid Organizer – this will help students to consider the story’s topics, conflicts, and themes 

Thursday

• Drive-in Theater – View the Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”

Friday

• No School

READING CLASSES

• Finish and missing/incomplete ELA work
• Vocabulary Review Games
• The Monsters are Due on Maple Street vocabulary
• Argument writing terms vocabulary (to prepare for our upcoming writing unit)
• Organizations skills 

ELA

• Evidence trackers (formative) Evidence-Tracker Student Copy
• PAST DUE – Informative Essay (Summative)

Reading

• Vocabulary activity (choice board)