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
• Novel Unit: The Bronze Bow

**This novel will be integrated with Social Studies Mesopotamian Unit**

• 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