Pirates of the 
7th Grade
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November

Date Lesson Plans
November 19-November 23, 2007 Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday

Core 1:  Circle Measurement:  Activity: " Putting a Round Peg into a Square Hole" Finish coloring the quarters of the circle.  Cut out the final quarter and paste this part of the circle on the borders within the three  remaining squares.  Any leftover circle parts wii need to be pasted outside of the square regions.  Students will count and record how many squares are left over.

Cores 2, 3, and 4:  Record required formulas for seventh grade EOG.  Use note cards and hole punch for storage on notebook ring.  Review  number proporties:  Communitive, Associative, Identity, and Zero.  Introduce distributive property and its use in mental math.

 

Tuesday

Core 1:  Finish formula cards for all Cores. Go over selected problems from Weekly Essentials Week 11 for Core 1 and 2.  Hand out progress notes for all cores.  Remind students that an afterschool session will be held Thursday, Novemeber 29, from 3:00 to 4:00. Prompt pickup at 4:00 is required.

Wedsnesday

 Collect progress notes for all cores.

Core 1: Continue reviewing skills from Wk. 11 Essentials.  Introduce surface area of prisms and cylinders:  pg. 442-444.  Review the examples given for each object.  Assign the even problems from pg. 445 to 447.

Core 2:  Continue reviewing skills from Wk. 11 Essentials. Introduce area of combined figures, pg. 413-416, reviewing given examples. Assign pg. 416-418 problems  1-9.

Core 3: Introduce area of combined figures, pg. 413-416, reviewing given examples. Assign pg. 416-418 problems  1-9.

Core 4: Review circumference and area of circles. Use examples on pg. 419-421 for guided practice.  Assign pg. 422-424 problems 1-3, 7-9, 16-19.

 

Thursday:  All  cores:  Study Island in the media center lab.

 

Friday:  Cores 1 and 2:  Complete mental math section for Wk. 11 Essentials.  Study and review area formulas from formula cards.  Test for knowledge of the first 15 perfect squares.  Finish up loose ends from any lesson presented this week.

Cores 3 and 4:  Complete Mental Math Minute 15.   Study and review area formulas from formula cards.  Core 3:  Answer questions about Wednesday's homework.  Continue to practice these concepts by completing together problems 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, and 20.

Core 4: Review Wednesday's homework on circle circumference and area.  Continue practice on pgs. 423. Use problems 24-26, 33, 34 and Test Prep, pg. 424.