| YEAR AT A GLANCE--7th Grade ELA Pre-AP | ||||||
| SIX WEEKS | READING | WRITING | GRAMMAR | OTHER | ||
| FIRST | Short Stories: "7th Grade"; O. Henry study with "Retrieved Reformation", "After 20 Years", "The Last Leaf", and a focus on types of irony; Literary Elements (such as plot, character, setting, dialogue, etc.); Literary Devices (such as simile, allusion, metaphor, idiom, irony, etc.); Compare/Contrast; Author's Purpose; Inferences; Review of summer reading; Poetry mini unit; Tone; Dialogue | Steps of Writing: Steps of Writing: prewriting, rough drafts, revision, editing, peer editing, publishing; Writing dialogue | Complete sentences (sub/verb); How to quote/dialogue; Basic Grammar (parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, homonyms/homophones, fragments, run-ons); | Levels of questioning wheel; | ||
| SECOND | Annotating literature 101; Etymology; Shakespeare & the Renaissance, Elizabethian Times; Mouse Hamlet & Lion King; Mini-verisions of plays; tragedy vs. comedy styles; meter; sonnets | Cleaning up the Writing (rearranging, elaboration, deletion, peer editing); Paraphrasing; Summarizing; Dictionary Skills; C/C paper on Hamlet vs. The Lion King; Shakespeare Portfolio; Thesis statements; Sentence variation and length; Sense writing; Works Cited pages and parathetical documentation | S/V Agreement; Clauses; Pronouns | Plays and performances; Puns/Humor; | ||
| THIRD | A Christmas Carol Novel with a focus on author's style, symbolism, vocabulary, visualization' | Annotating notes; Comparison/Contrast Writing; Descriptive Writing with senses and adj/adv; Truisms & quicklists; TAKS writing; Sense writing; Summarization; Visualization Writing; Sentence/paragraph order; Analization of 4,3,2,1; Common writing errors | Appositives, Double Negatives, Making Comparisons | Life of Charles Dickens | ||
| FOURTH | Study of Civil Rights through the reading of Witness; Character development; E.C. Reading of The Watsons go to Birmingham; Civil Rights Poetry; Paragraph organization and GIST; Intro to Sci-Fi; Intro to Ray Bradbury; "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed", "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind", "Key Item" | Researching a Topic: writing notecards, writing a works cited, research strategies, note cards, brainstorming, editing, presenting; Paraphrasing; Summarizing; Fleshing out writing; TAKS writing | Inventing a language | Utopia vs. Distopia; Censorship; Banned Books | ||
| FIFTH | Fahrenheit 451 with a focus on Author's Purpose and Style, symbolism, motifs, theme, and allusion; Main Idea; Inferences; Dennotation and Connotation; Inferences; SAT words; Character development; Memorization; Synthesis | Persuasive Essay writing Research strategies through Concession/Counterargument, letters, pathos/ethos/logos, media and advertisement techniques, study of famous speeches, and Author's Purpose, Style, and Voice; Editing | Word Parts (prefixes and suffixes) | Utopia vs. Distopia; Censorship; Banned Books | ||
| SIXTH | Study of Greek Mythology, Basic Gods, Creation Myths, Basic myths of Greece; Creatures of the World | Norse Mythology, Basic Gods, Creation Myth; The Sea of Trolls | Different Cultures | |||