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April 2025 – Mr. Coward's Seventh Grade English
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Wednesday, 4/30: BOB!

Thank you for your patience!

Please continue BOBing! Pick up where you left off before/after FastBridge and continue down the list.

If you were absent yesterday and missed FASTBRIDGE, please sign up for MR. LAFFIN’s tutorial to make it up!

If you haven’t shared your essay yet, it’s now late.

Link to ONLINE BOB: https://www.hmhco.com/content/literature/into_lit/g7/student/epub/ilnl21en_ese_g07u01_student/#cards–07le_13_ese_realitycheck_aa/

BOB:

  1. Read aloud (Guest Teacher or Volunteers) starting on p7. (“Mirror Image”)
  2. Stop and Do any Orange Annotation Prompts. (p8, p9, p12, p13, p14) Share a few.
  3. Stop and Do any NOTICE AND NOTE prompts. (p10, p11)  Share a few.
    Finished the Story?
  4. Do p15.
  5. Do p16, #3, #4, #5.
  6. Do p18.
  7. Do p19.
  8. Turn to p20 and do only the “What’s not to Like?”
  9. Read p21 aloud: Guest Teacher and/or volunteers..
  10. Read p22. You should already know the vocab!
  11. Begin reading “Not Everything It Seems” on p23 aloud: Guest Teacher and/or volunteers.
  12. Do all Orange and Blue activities as you read. Share and discuss.
  13. Do p27. Share and Correct.
  14. Do #1,#3, #4 on p28. Share and correct.
  15. Do Practice and Apply on p30.  Share and correct.
  16. Do p31. Share and correct.

 

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Tuesday, 4/29: FastBridge, BOB

FASTBRIDGE (I know…)

Check your headphones before starting Fastbridge.

  • https://slcusd.illuminatehc.com/login
  • Sign in with Google (red button).
  • Continue to Portal.
  • Select Fastbridge Learning from the sidebar.
  • Fast Track Reading.
  • Do the aReader and the AutoReader (Do all of the mini tests.)
  • Do anything that says Reading until they’re all gone

Finished Early? Go back to working through “Mirror Image.”  Pick wherever you stopped yesterday.

LINK TO ONLINE BOB: https://www.hmhco.com/content/literature/into_lit/g7/student/epub/ilnl21en_ese_g07u01_student/#cards–07le_13_ese_realitycheck_uo/

  1. Read the Essential Question and George Lucas quote on p1.
  2. Do the activities on p2. Share a couple.
  3. Do the activities on p4. Share a couple.
  4. If you don’t know the words on p6, make sure you do by Wednesday! Put the Definitions in BOB, and you can use them on the test.
  5. Read aloud (Guest Teacher or Volunteers) starting on p7.
  6. Stop and Do any Orange Annotation Prompts. (p8, p9, p12, p13, p14) Share a few.
  7. Stop and Do any NOTICE AND NOTE prompts. (p10, p11)  Share a few.
    Finished the Story?
  8. Do p15.
  9. Do p16, #3, #4, #5.
  10. Do p18.
  11. Do p19.
  12. We will correct on Thursday.
  13. All activities are fair game for the test Friday, so make sure you fix wrong/random responses.

 

Monday, 4/28: Homework, BOB

Advisory Schedule. Link to Slides.


Copy Homework into planner:

  • KBARR ! Read 15 minutes M-Th, get chart signed (in notebook), respond 1 page (in notebook) by Friday. (Here are some more ideas for responding.)
  • MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CHROMEBOOK TOMORROW FOR FASTBRIDGE TESTING!

Take out BOB!

Guest Teacher: Use Teachers’ Edition to guide and read aloud.
Students: Follow the directions below in order.

LINK TO ONLINE BOB: https://www.hmhco.com/content/literature/into_lit/g7/student/epub/ilnl21en_ese_g07u01_student/#cards–07le_13_ese_realitycheck_uo/

  1. Read the Essential Question and George Lucas quote on p1.
  2. Do the activities on p2. Share a couple.
  3. Do the activities on p4. Share a couple.
  4. If you don’t know the words on p6, make sure you do by Wednesday! Put the Definitions in BOB, and you can use them on the test.
  5. Read aloud (Guest Teacher or Volunteers) starting on p7.
  6. Stop and Do any Orange Annotation Prompts. (p8, p9, p12, p13, p14) Share a few.
  7. Stop and Do any NOTICE AND NOTE prompts. (p10, p11)  Share a few.
  8. Get as far as you can Today.
  9. Continue on Tuesday after completing Fastbridge or Wednesday.
  10. All activities are fair game for the test Friday, so make sure you fix wrong/random responses.

 

 

Friday, 4/25: Mental Floss, Test 30, Work on Essay

TuTu Schedule.

Prep a SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER for Test #30. Name, Title, Period, etc.

Mental Floss on the back.

Mental Floss. (All reruns from week 2)

  1. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the ark with  him? (Note: It asks how many animals, not how many pairs.)
  2. Using the words DROVES and NEWS write seven words using each letter once.
  3. How many times can you subtract 6 from 36? (Alert: math.)
  4. Sue is both the 50th best and the 50th worst student at her school. How many students attend her school? (Not a trick, just math.)
  5. If everybody in the world jumped off a cliff, would you? Why/not? (No credit without correct reason!!)
  6. Which is smallest? nobis, nettikt, wrothag, useom, irgafef

 

Test #30. USE A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER FOR YOUR ANSWERS.

CLOSE ALL OTHER TABS IN YOUR CHOMEBOOK. I can watch from GoGuardian remotely.  😉

Work on your essay after.

 

Thursday, 4/24: Agreement (Again), Test 9, Vocab, Essay

Tomorrow’s “Test”: Agreement reruns, Test 9 Reruns and Vocab. Whatever time you have left after the test is the last time you have to finish/share your essay. Preview is a maybe…


“Agreement, 4/24.” Write the subject and an appropriate verb. PRESENT TENSE. Do not repeat verbs.

  1. Many summer camps, with lots of money to spend, ___bought new equipment.
  2. The green wheelbarrow behind those bushes ____ a good cleaning.
  3. A robin, with her babies, ____ in the tree.
  4. Josh and Jimmy ____to join the video class.
  5. A box of Ivan’s paintings ____on sale today.

Test #9 Review, 4/24.”   Do 5-9.  ANSWER NOT LETTER!


“Vocab, 4/24.” spite, perplex, serene, incense, surge, alibi, idyllic, sprawl, dismay, instigate
   

  1. _____
  2. _____
  3. _____
  4. _____
  5. “A(n) _____ is a reason with a bad reputation.”
  6. The root of this word meant “to urge on.”_____
  7. The root of this word meant “entangled, interwoven, folded together.” _____
  8. The root of this word meant “clear, fine, calm.” _____
  9. The root of this word meant “set fire to.” _____
  10. The root of this word is similar to that of picturesque. _____
  11. (2) The team ____(ed) from behind in the last two minutes and pulled out a win; much to the _____ of the people who bet on the other side.
  12. (2) His _____ was proven false when the security cameras caught him _____(ing) the riot and then running away.

Last opportunity to work on Essay. See below for the grading criteria and a sample. Essays should be shared BY MONDAY!

Rubric / Example Essay / Example Evaluation