Ms. Hincker's 7th grade English Blog

Today, we took our first vocabulary quiz of the year and worked on Journal Entry #1 for the 1st quarter. Homework: Finish Journal Entry #1. The topic is posted here on my blog.

Today, we finished up our grammar presentations and played around the world with our vocabulary words in preparation for the vocab. quiz tomorrow. Homework: Please study for vocab. quiz tomorrow. The format will be as follows: Part I: Matching (I’ll give you five words to match up with a synonym or one word definition. There [...]

Today, we continued with the grammar presentations, and a few classes had the opportunity to discuss the end of “The Most Dangerous Game.” Homework: Please choose an independent reading book and begin reading. Please also interview your family members about a time when they were in danger. This will be in preparation for our first [...]

Today, we continued with our grammar presentations and we began discussing our first short story of the year, “The Most Dangerous Game.” Together, we identified places where the author seemed to use foreshadowing to give us clues about what was to come in the story. Homework: Tonight, students will finish “The Most Dangerous Game” and [...]

Today, we defined foreshadowing in preparation for our reading tonight. We also returned to our grammar presentations. The students are doing an awesome job, and we’re all being reminded of our basic sentence parts. Well done! Homework: Read the first half of “The Most Dangerous Game” which I handed out in class and do your [...]

Today, we finished going over the definitions, parts of speech, and student sentences for our ten new words. After that, we began our grammar presentations. We will continue the presentations tomorrow. It was a great beginning! Homework: Begin studying vocab. for next week’s quiz. (You may want to make flash cards if they help you [...]

Today, the students had about 20 minutes in class to finish planning their five minute grammar presentations which will begin tomorrow in class. We spent the other half of class reviewing the vocabulary words that they looked up last week. Homework: Please finish up any last minute details for the grammar presentations tomorrow. You may [...]

Today, we got our login names and passwords to gain access to the network on the laptops here in the Middle School. If there was time at the end of class, students were allowed to link up with their partner on the grammar project and talk about the plan for teaching their part of speech [...]

Well, it feels like we’re really in full swing now! Today, we spent some time talking about the grammar presentations that the students will begin working on tonight for homework, and I checked off their vocabulary homework. After we were settled in, we began class by reading our summaries of Al Capone Does my Shirts [...]

Today, we took our summer reading quiz on the required reading for the summer. I’m thrilled that so many students truly enjoyed the reading that they did over the summer. One of our goals in the English department is to develop life long readers in our student body, and an enjoyment of books at this [...]