Lesson Plans

Antonia Sowell
7th Grade ELA

Date: Week 2 August 8-12

Opening (Engage) Journal topic of the day:
This varies every day and is usually related to the days lesson
Acquire a new vocabulary and use correctly in reading, writing and speaking
Analyze the meaning of various word parts (prefixes and suffixes)
Standards
Greek Latin roots

Essential
Question(s)

Vocabulary

Mini Lesson

How many parts of speech are there?

How do we define them?
How do we relate them to daily life in communicating with one another through speech
and writing?
Adjacent
Alight
Barren
Disrupt
Dynasty
Foretaste
Germinate
Humdrum
Hurtle
Insinuate
Power Point presentation entitled Back to the Basics to help students review the 8 part
of speech. Have students take notes on all parts of speech, give an example of a sentence
I have written and then ask them to write their own sentences.

Work Session (Explore, Explain, Elaborate)

Group I: Students draw from a basket full of paper with the

different parts of speech written on each paper and whichever
piece they draw they write a sentence on the sentence strips
provided
Differentiated
Instruction/
Small
Group/Task

Group II: Students will complete a circle map displaying their

understanding of nouns and adjectives.
Group III: Students play an interactive game on the computer
about the parts of speech via the website:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/nouns.htm

Lesson Plans
Antonia Sowell
7th Grade ELA

Writing
Connection
End of Unit
Assessment
Connection

Constructed Response Questions

Students are given a part of speech and asked to share the
sentences they wrote with it.
Making connections
Constructed Response Questions
Thinking critically

Closing (Evaluate)