7th Grade ELA Week at a Glance

 We hope you enjoyed Labor Day! Narrative development will be Week Four's focus. Imagery, characterization, and dialogue are concepts that students will learn about and practice recognizing, understanding, and using. They should understand how these elements develop a narrative by Friday.  Students will read the final chapter, 7, of The Call of the Wild . On Friday, students will take a skills assessment. 

Students will take a quiz on Chapters 5-7 of The Call of the Wild on Monday. The rest of the week will be a review of standards RI and RL 7.1-4 and RI 7.8. They will read excerpts and short stories to practice skills and review topics such as recognizing theme, character interactions, vocabulary, argument and summarizing.  On Wednesday, they will take a cold quiz . To end the week, students will take Cycle 10 Vocab Quiz and write an on-demand essay .

The Call of the Wild will be completed this week. Students will begin the week with a quiz on Chapters 1-4. Then, they will read Chapters 5-7 and review skills such as conflict, summary, and gathering evidence with these chapters.  On Friday students will write an on-demand essay  for the book. In addition  to this book, students will begin reading O'Henry stories and learn about peripeteia. They will use these stories to practice other reading skills as well. On Thursday, students will take a cold quiz .

Welcome back! We hope you had a relaxing break. Students will read The Pearl by John Steinbeck this week. After every chapter students will complete a quiz. In addition to this book, students will grapple with assessing evidence found in arguments. They will locate textual evidence, identify the type and determine whether it is relevant and sufficient. At the end of the week, students will practice independently finding, identifying, and evaluating evidence within an argument.