| YEAR AT A GLANCE--7th Grade ELA On-Level | ||||||
| SIX WEEKS | READING | WRITING | GRAMMAR | OTHER | ||
| FIRST | Short Stories: "The Champ", "7th Grade", "Thank You, Ma'm", "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "Zebra", "Homeless", "The War of the Wall", Excerpt from "The House on Mango Street", Literary Elements (such as plot, character, setting, dialogue, etc.); Literary Devices (such as simile, allusion, metaphor, idiom, etc.); Compare/Contrast; Author's Purpose; Inferences; | Steps of Writing: Steps of Writing: prewriting, rough drafts, revision, editing, peer editing, publishing; Complete Sentences; Paragraph writing; | Complete Sentences; Spelling; Homonyms/Homophones; Conjunctions; Nouns | Levels of questioning wheel; Wall of Respect | ||
| SECOND | The Outsiders; Begin Poetry | Paragraph writing; Cleaning up the Writing (rearranging, elaboration, deletion, peer editing); Sense writing; Truisms; Visualizing writing; Common errors in writing | Capitalization; Punctuation; Adverbs; Adjectives; Nouns; Verbs; S/V Agreement | |||
| THIRD | A variety of poetry and poetry forms; A Christmas Carol Play; Fact vs. Opinion; Compare/Contrast; Literary Devices | Writing using adjectives and adverbs; Revision of Writing; Truisms; Dictionary Skills; Dead Words; Beginnings and Endings; TAKS Writing; Quicklists; C/C Writing; Visualization in writing | Comparisons; Double Negatives; Appositives | |||
| FOURTH | Research strategies; The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963, Civil Rights Movement, Dictionary Skills; Literary Devices; Word Parts (prefixes, suffixes); "Malcolm X" story; "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed", "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", Author Study on Ray Bradbury; Author's Purpose and Style | Researching a Topic: writing notecards, writing a works cited, research strategies, brainstorming, editing, presenting, note cards; Paraphrasing; Summarizing; Essay writing; Fleshing out writing; Truisms into Essays; Using body reactions in writing; Editing in writing; Utopias; TAKS Writing; Civil Rights | Editing; Subject/Verb Agreement | Review of Internet and good sources; Fact vs. Opinion; Ads and Marketing Tequniques (snob appeal, bandwagon, etc.); Finding Meaning; Viewing and Deciphering Meaning from Images and Graphics; Utopia vs. Distopia; Censorship; Banned Books | ||
| FIFTH | The Giver; Main Idea; Inferences; Dennotation and Connotation; Literary Devices; Euphemisms; Generalizations; Compare/Contrast; Chronological Order; Timelines; a variety of magazine articles from "Time Magazine for Kids" Main Idea; Inferences; Literary Devices; Generalizations; Compare/Contrast; Prefixes and Suffixes; Author's Style and Purpose; Paragraph Order and Organization | G/R mythology; Basic Gods, Creation Myths, Basic myths of Greece; Creatures of the World; Word Parts review; | Different cultures | |||
| SIXTH | Finish The Giver | Norse Mythology, Basic Gods, Creation Myth; The Sea of Trolls | Different Cultures | |||