Concept / Words of the Week Sept. 30 - Oct. 4

Complete Subject & Complete Predicate

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.  Every complete sentence has two basic parts: a subject and a predicate (verb).

The complete subject includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.

example:  The rays of the sun give energy to the earth.

The complete predicate includes the verb and all the words that tell what the subject is or what the subject does.

example:  Energy is needed for work.  

Spelling:

wire, rose, spoke, throughout, compare 
movement, exercise, bread, process, nature 

Concept / Words of the Week: Sept 16 - 20

Vocabulary / Spelling Words of the Week

i before e except after C

While there are exceptions, this spelling rule has been around for a long time and have helped many remember how to spell certain words. The highlighted words below do not fit this rule.

friend	believe	variety	field	piece
receive	ceiling	weird	height	neighbor

Concept of the Week:  Diagramming Subject & Verbs

Subject: Who or what the sentence is about
            Who or what is DOING the action

Verb: The action in the sentence


1.  Dogs run.          Dogs  /   run             

2.  Pigs squeal.      Pigs  /   squeal  

All sentences NEED to have a subject and a verb in order to be a complete sentence or thought.  The rest of the sentence is made of extra info to make the sentence sound interesting.

1.  My neighbor's dogs always run after cars.

Dogs is still the subject (doing the action)

What are the dogs doing?  Running (the action)

Try it!

People of long ago used animals as a source of energy.

Strong animals plowed fields for farmers.

Concept / Word of the Week: Sept 9-13

Sept 9th - Sept 13th

Vocabulary / Spelling Words of the Week

science	social studies	mathematics	health	English
language	Schmitz	Olson	Burch	Schmidt

Concept of the Week

Capitalization:

1. Beginning of the Sentence
1. Always capitalize the beginning of a sentence.
2. Important / Proper names of people, places, and events
1. There are many teachers at Pulaski Community Middle School including: Mr. Ford, Mrs. Schmidt, Mrs. Olson, and Mrs. Burch.
3. Beginning of dialogue
1. Mrs. Schmidt said, “You must study these concepts so you do well on the test at the end of the week.”
4. The word “I” when used to represent yourself

Practice:  Circle the capitalized letters below.  Then number them to give an explanation for why that was capitalized.

Griffin began to help Cheyenne out of the car.  Roy turned to him and motioned “Park the Escalde in the barn and I will bring her up to the house.  We will talk about what to do with her later.”

The Maze Runner by James Dashner:

“I want to be one of the guys that goes out there,” he said aloud, not knowing if Chuck was still awake.  “The runners inside the Maze.”  Chuck grumbled and rolled over.  “Go to sleep.”

Expectations

Every week, we will focus on a writing concept of the week in addition to a list of 10 vocabulary / spelling words.  The concept of the week is based off of what is expected for 7th graders at PCMS to know by the end of the year.  The spelling / vocabulary words are a combination of common sight words along with commonly misspelled words as seen in their daily writing.  Some of these concepts will be easier than others.  The more difficult concepts will be reviewed several times throughout the year.  However, after we have studied and tested on these concepts and words of the week, it is expected that you will use them correctly in ALL class assignments for ALL of your classes, especially communication arts, science, and social studies.  There will be times that you will receive a grade in communication arts based on your ability to correctly  transfer these concepts and words to all of your academics.