LANGUAGE ARTS
- Unit: This is Who I am
- Short Story: “Seventh Grade”
- Review of Plot Elements
- Review of Context Clues
- How to Annotate a Text?
- Read Aloud Novel: Firegirl
- Setting, Characterization,
- Connecting with your Reading
- How to identify the theme
- Poetry: Free Verse and Found Poetry
- Guided Reading
- Writing: Free Verse Poetry, Found Poetry Expository/Explanation Essay
- Short Story: “Seventh Grade”
- Novel Unit: The Bronze Bow
- Unit: “Mixed Messages”
- Short Story: “Thank you Ma’am”
- Print Ads
- Guided Reading
- Writing: Persuasive Text, Write their Own Ad, write a letter to the principal
- Novel Unit: The Golden Goblet **This will be integrated with the Egyptian Unit**
- Writing: Compare and Contrast
- Figures of Speech
- Poetry: “Still I Rise”, “If”, “Invictus
- Independent Novel Study (Students will choose from pre-selected novels)
- Short Story: “The Lottery”
- Final Project (students to apply two to three concepts they learned in this final project)
- Final Novel Study (if there is still time)
- Novel: Jean Val Jean