7th Grade Language Arts
John N. Dalton Intermediate School
Teacher, Mrs. Kelly Morris
Welcome! You will find information regarding the units of study in my seventh grade English classes. My goal is to help students become confident and proficient readers and writers. Don't forget to add your name and email address to the "Notify" list so that you will receive an email every time I update Schoolnotes. Often times, daily assignments aren't posted because I list assignments on the agenda board in class; students are responsible for writing assignments in their agenda books daily.
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Congratulations to Dalton's Spelling Bee Champ!
Namiah Sarwar
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We now have school on Monday, February 15th. It is a snow make-up day.
Report cards for the third marking period will go home on Monday, February 15th.
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4th - 6th periods have taken the root word quiz.
2nd - 3rd periods will take the quiz the next day we are back at school.
The quiz was worth 26 points. Due to all the snow days, students are allowed to retake the root word quiz. I will average the two quizzes together for a final grade. Some students will definitely want to retake the quiz.
If students want to retake the quiz, they will have to stay after school to do so. This offer is only good for this week.
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Affixes - word parts
Root Words - part of the word that carries the meaning
Prefixes - added to the beginning of words, slightly changes the meaning
Suffixes - added to the end of words, usually changes the part of speech
We will be working with 11 root words this week. We will have a quiz on Friday, February 5.
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Book Project:
Students will write a Summary of their books.
The Book Project is Due: Monday, February 8, 2010 (24 total reading days).
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Upcoming units of study:
Affixes - root words, prefixes, suffixes
Analogies - a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
Context Clues - clarifying vocabulary by use of clues in the text
Internal Text Structures - seven types of text organizational patterns in informational text
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Onomatopoeia - sound words and phrases.
ex. Buzzing surrounded us as the bees zipped through the air.
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Alliteration - the repetition of initial (beginning) sounds of adjacent words (words next to each other)
ex. Sally sold seashells by the seashore
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Personification - a type of figurative language - giving a something that is nonhuman a human quality
ex. The raindrops dance on the tin roof of the cabin.
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Hyperbole - a type of figurative language - an extreme
exaggeration
ex. I cried buckets of tears.
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