7th Grade ELA Week at a Glance

 Welcome Back! This short week will be spent doing remediation and makeup work. Students will be given a chance to finish any missed assignments. If a student is up to date, then they will work on practicing skills such as writing, recognizing themes, and multiple-choice using the short story, "The Sniper." 

 Nonfiction skills are the focus of week 8. Students will learn about the different text structures, part to whole for development, and the connection between informational text and literature.  On Thursday, students will practice these skills in preparation for a mini-assessment that will be given on Friday. 

Students will begin reading excerpts from The Prince and the Pauper.   Using this book, students will review concepts such as dialect, perspective, irony, characterization, suspense and vocabulary strategies.  In addition to this, students will review poetry skills and gather information to write an argument on whether King Henery VIII  was a good or bad king.

Students will earn two test grades this week. The first will be Cold Assessment 2.2 on Monday, and the other will be an essay that requires students to be finished by Friday . They will begin the essay on Tuesday and receive guiding instruction that will allow them to write their essays throughout the week. In addition to these assignments, students will work on finishing The Duel  and all of the assignments associated with this text by Friday.

" Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. " - Helen Keller We will continue reading T he Story of My Life (Chapters 9-14) this week. Students will begin reading The Miracle Worker, which is a play based on Helen Keller's life.  Using this play and the book, students will practice RL 7.5, RL 7.7 and RL. 7.9. These standards focus on structure and compare/contrast. In addition to these skills, students will practice analyzing central idea development. On Wednesday, students will take Cold Quiz 1.3.

" The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller We are going to shift our focus from literary texts to informational texts this week by reading Chapters 1-8 of Helen Keller's The Story of My Life . Using this book, students will practice central idea, summary, and a variety of vocabulary strategies. They will have a cold quiz on Tuesday. 

 Students will take the Math Part 1 exam on Tuesday and the Math Part 2 exam on Wednesday of this week.  Please, make every effort to be here on time and well-rested.  Students will finish reading  The Outsiders this week. In addition to reading this novel, students will continue working on their  Narrative Project ; this is due on Friday by midnight and is an assessment grade.

Students have followed the journey of four amazing women in Hidden Figures . They will finish the compelling story this week. As a culminating activity, students will complete a project on the book for an assessment grade .  Students will begin the project this week and present it next week. The other half of class will be spent reviewing skills learned throughout the first semester in stations.

Golden autumn ways Falling leaves and sunny rays Perfect writing days – Sharon Jones Authors can express a variety of topics using poetry: love, hate, friendship, war...the list goes on and on. We will learn about the different forms and structures of poetry in addition to other poetry terms this week. We will be reading "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," and "Oranges." To end the week, we will have an on-demand writing test grade on Thursday and our last cold assessment of the 9 weeks on Friday .