First Nine Weeks Overview - 7th Grade
Reading Components
- Literary fiction study though the lens of character perspective and author's craft in the development of theme and characterization.
- Student selected short story groups - Flying Lessons and Other Stories
- Student selected titles *Book Club selection made available in Canvas Classroom
- Informational texts to explore connections to literary selections.
- Articles based on topics that are relevant to the student selected titles
- Poetry
- Selected text that connects to student selected titles.
Writing Components
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Expository writing
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Narrative writing activities as related to a selected text
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Literary analysis of selected book club text
Speaking and Listening Components
- Completion of reading assignments and assigned activities to explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
- Questioning that elicits elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas
Language Components
- 7th Grade Language Standards *5-a-day warmups
- Application of writing standards *Patterns of Power
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