MR. RIFKIN'S 7TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS CLASS

This week will be devoted to Vocabulary # 6 (pages 65 -71), and a special assignment in honor of Halloween. There will be a special program on Monday, October 30 in conjunction with The Alliance Theater, therefore, classes will be modified. The vocabulary quiz will be on Friday, as usual. Monday: Special program in conjunction with The Alliance Theater (no regular classes). There is homework for Vocabulary. Do pages 65 - 71. This will be checked on Tuesday or Wednesday, whenever your class meets after that Monday. Tuesday : Go over the Vocabulary homework (pages 65 -71). Go over the tests on "the 7 uses of the noun" and the Flowers for Algernon test.  Begin the special assignment in honor of Halloween. This will be culminated in a writing assignment. More information will be given to students in class. (blocks 2 and 5) Wednesday: Same as Tuesday for blocks 6 and 7. Block 2 will begin writing the assignment connected to Halloween. Block 2 will also review vocabulary f

This week will be devoted to Vocabulary Unit Quiz # 5, and review for the "7 Uses of the Noun" test and the Flowers for Algernon test. There will be no new vocabulary unit this week. Monday: Vocabulary Quiz #5. When the students are finished with the quiz, they will work quietly on review for either, the noun test or Flowers for Algernon test. Tuesday: Review for the "7 uses of the noun " test for Thursday, October 26th. Block 2 will have the test on Wednesday, October 25th. We will have students go to the board for practice sentences. Also, we will review Flowers for Algernon  for the test on Friday, October 27th.   I will have a tutorial on Wednesday morning @ 7:30 - 7:50 for any student who needs some last-minute "brush up" for the noun test. Wednesday: Block 2 will take the "noun" test. Block 6 and 7 will review Flowers for Algernon. Thursday:   Blocks 5, 6 and 7 will take the "noun test". Friday: All students will

This week will be devoted to Vocabulary # 5 (pages 58 - 64) The quiz will be on Monday October 23 instead of the usual Friday(October 20th). Also, we will continue with our discussion on Flowers for Algernon and review of the 7 uses of the noun for a test this week or next. Monday: Begin Vocabulary #5 (pages 58 -64) for the first 10 minutes of class. Finish for homework ! Also, pages 12 and 13 (Parts A, B, C and E) in the grammar Workbook for homework Continue with the discussion of Flowers for Algernon and pass out "7 Uses of  Noun" handout to the students for review. Tuesday: Go over the vocabulary homework. Continue with "Flowers" and review the uses of the noun  homework. Have individual students come to the board to identify the nouns in each sentence while the students, seated, do them as well. (blocks 2 and 5) Wednesday : (Same as Tuesday for blocks 6 and 7)  Review the uses of nouns for the test next week for block 2. Thursday: **Finish revie

This week will be devoted to the continuation of the 7 uses of nouns with the addition of "object complements" and "appositives". Students will also receive a copy of Flowers for Algernon, our next novel, and a packet, including a reading schedule, character list and overall plot information to help students stay on task and help with their daily reading assignments.. There will be no school on Thursday (Simchat Torah/Shemini Atzeret). We will have "A" days onTuesday and Wednesday. Monday: Vocabulary quiz #4 ( This quiz was supposed to be given last Friday, but because of Sukkot, assessments were not to be given to students). Pass out copies of  Flowers for Algernon to all students, as well as, packets to help students with the daily readings. Tuesday:   Introduce the object complement and the appositive. Do pages 7 and 8 in the grammar workbook. We will continue with this process, with the inclusion of the other 5 uses of nouns. We will review al