Nicki Salisbury : 7th Language Arts

Literature Circles

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:59:33 PST

Both 7th grade classes have recently been trained in "Literature Circles". Lit. Circles function sort of like a book group, but with more structure. A group of students are reading the same novel or story, and each of them has a job to do. These jobs are designed to cover the main points of comprehensio ...

NaNoWriMo!!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:27:37 PDT

This year the 7th grade classes at 91 are going to be participating in "NaNoWriMo", or National Novel Writing Month. The goal is for each student to write a (between 7,000 and 14,000 word) story in the month of November.NaNoWriMo began in 1999 as a way for people who had a story in them to find the motivation and timeline to get it down on paper. You can find more information on the Young Writer ...

Reading 7th Grade A Agendas and Notes

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:48:30 PST

Click here to access agendas and notes for 7A Reading class. ...

Reading 7th Grade B January Notes and Agendas

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:49:15 PST

Click here (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfdb826t_154dgcxhsfj) to access our agendas and notes for January. ...

7th Grade Reading Group A- Class Agendas

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:16:31 PDT

I am going to post daily agendas, with assignments and due dates, using a "googledoc". When you click on the link below, you will be given the most recent version of our classroom notes. All assignments (except reading logs) will be posted in this document. Each month a new document will be posted, to keep the documents from getting too long. This is a new system for me, so let me know how it work ...

7th Grade Language Arts Week of 31708

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:21:00 PDT

Here are the notes and assignments for this week in 7th Grade Language Arts. We are beginning the novel Surviving the Applewhites if you are interested in reading along and discussing literature with your child.7LA Week of 3/17/08 ...

Narrative Story Writing Unit

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:25 PST

Once upon a time...a class of 7th grade students were beginning a narrative story writing unit.All of the notes and assignments for this unit will be published in this googledoc:Narrative UnitThe final project for this unit will be a picture book of some sort (student's choice.) Hopefully these will end Happily Ever After! ...

Descriptive Writing- 7LA

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:39:21 PST

Here is a link to the prompts we have writing to this week. Each was developed with a T-Chart, then one chosen to write out completely.Descriptive Writing ...

Shark Research

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:44:34 PST

Here are some good websites for our shark themed research reports:Nettrekker(you need the password for nettrekker)Nettrekker Discovery ChannelCheck back often... we will add others as we find them! ...

Poetry Podcast Friday Episode 4: Haiku

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:43:40 PST

A little late, but it's here! We hope you enjoy the Haiku episode of our podcast. We are really having fun doing it! ...

Poetry Podcast Friday Episode 3: Limericks

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:48:38 PDT

We hope you enjoy our third episode of Poetry Podcast Friday (this time on Friday!) We focused this week on Limericks. It was a fun podcast, full of giggles- lucky we can edit those out! ...

Poetry Podcast Friday Episode 2: Cinquain

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:38:35 PDT

Enjoy episode 2 of what we have named "Poetry Podcast Friday"- even though it doesn't always happen on Fridays.Here are some poetry links you might be interested in:LearnPoetry.com GigglePoetry.com ...

7th Grade Language Arts Week of Oct. 15

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:58:34 PDT

I am trying to find the best way to communicate assignments to parents and students online. Last month I had a changing agenda linked for parents and students to view, but I am not sure it was very clear as to which activities were assignments. I am going to try to put assignments only on the blog- this seems to work for my Algebra class. Let me know what you think!Monday- Cinquain Poetry Hand ...

7LA First Podcast!

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:43:06 PDT

Please enjoy our first poetry podcast, where we share a classic poem. ...

Easy Access to Agendas for 7LA

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:51:47 PDT

Staff at 91 are using a great tool- Google Docs (docs.google.com) -as a great interactive publishing tool. I have created a document that holds our daily agendas for the month of September using this program, and you can access a published copy here:7LA September AgendasYou will notice that there are bla ...

7th Grade Completes State Writing Test

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:28:48 PST

Last week (February 5-8) the 7th grade students completed the state writing test. Eash student is given three writing prompts, then must choose one and write on it independently. As a teacher, it is so hard to spend so much time working with students on writing skills, then stand back and watch them do the writing all by themselves! I am so proud of what I saw from my students... a lot of thinkin ...

Welcome Ms. Denney!

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:02:07 PST

img src=""Since the beginning of the year, my 7th grade Language Arts class has had a very special addition. Ms. Denney, a student teacher from George Fox University, participated in our classroom a couple of days a week in September and October, and began to be with us full time after Thanksgiving. Ms. Denney will complete he ...

Reviews of the Book Shark Life

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:24:03 PDT

Here are three students with reviews of the book we are currently listening to in class: Shark Life by Peter Benchley is a good book to read. It includes shark encounters, diving with sharks, and what sharks have. What sharks do is they bite prople and they have cartlege (no bones). How sharks live is tghey eat to live and they swim to eat fish. You should read Shark Life.Ernes ...