GRADE 7. PerspectivesTM ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

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1 GRADE 7 PerspectivesTM ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

2 UNIT 1 Generations unit INTRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: NONFICTION NARRATIVE MODEL Grounded Marcy Domingo whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: NOVEL EXCERPT Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Text ANCHOR TEXT: NEWS BLOG A Simple Act Tyler Jackson ANCHOR TEXT: from An Invisible Thread Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski NEWS ARTICLE Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Tricks Jennifer Ludden from Mom & Me & Mom Maya Angelou Maya Angelou: Learning to Love My Mother Michael Maher MEDIA: IMAGE GALLERY Mother-Daughter Drawings Mica and Myla Hendricks POETRY Mother to Son Langston Hughes To James Frank Horne An Hour With Abuelo Judith Ortiz Cofer WRITING FOCUS Write a Nonfiction Narrative SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present a Nonfiction Narrative iv Grade 7

3 essential question: What can one generation learn from another? Independent Learning POETRY Lineage Margaret Walker Family Grace Paley OPINION PIECE Gotcha Day Isn t a Cause for Celebration Sophie Johnson The Old Grandfather and the Little Grandson Leo Tolstoy performance-based assessment Nonfiction Narrative: Text and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit BLOG POST Bridging the Generational Divide Between a Football Father and a Soccer Son John McCormick Water Names Lan Samantha Chang Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for a Nonfiction Narrative SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents v

4 UNIT 2 A Starry Home unit INTRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL Leaving Main Street John Hidalgo whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed Ray Bradbury MEDIA: RADIO PLAY Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed Ray Bradbury ANCHOR TEXT: NEWS ARTICLE Danger! This Mission to Mars Could Bore You to Death Maggie Koerth-Baker NEWS ARTICLE Future of Space Exploration Could See Humans on Mars, Alien Planets Nola Taylor Redd The Last Dog from Tomorrowland Katherine Paterson Ellen Ochoa Makers Profile INTERVIEW Neil degrasse Tyson on the Future of U.S. Space Exploration After Curiosity Keith Wagstaff WRITING FOCUS Write an Argument SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present an Argument vi Grade 7

5 essential question: Should we make a home in space? Independent Learning POETRY Science Fiction Cradlesong C.S. Lewis SCIENCE ARTICLES 5 Good Reasons to Believe in UFOs Patrick J. Kiger UFO Sightings and News Benjamin Radford ARGUMENT A Pale Blue Dot Carl Sagan performance-based assessment Argument: Essay and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit ESSAY Packing for Mars Mary Roach SCIENCE ARTICLE Trip to Mars Could Damage Astronauts Brains Laura Sanders INTERVIEW Interview With NASA Shuttle Astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz Stacey Severn Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Argument SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents vii

6 UNIT 3 Turning Points unit INTRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: INFORMATIONAL MODEL At the Crossroads Hajir Khouri whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Acts 1 & 2 Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol Chuck Jones Thank You, M am Langston Hughes from An American Childhood Annie Dillard MEDIA: SLIDE SHOW Urban Farming Is Growing a Green Future Brian Clark Howard NEWS ARTICLE Profile: Malala Yousafzai BBC News WRITING FOCUS Write an Informational Text SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present an Informational Text viii Grade 7

7 essential question: What can cause a sudden change in someone s life? Independent Learning ESSAY Little Things Are Big Jesús Colón Tomorrowland Rebecca Woolf BIOGRAPHY Barbara Rose Johns Powell Robert Russa Moton Museum NARRATIVE NONFICTION Noor Inayat Khan from Women Heroes of WWII Kathryn J. Atwood performance-based assessment Informational: Text and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry Between Practice and Perfection Azizat Danmole Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Informational Text SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents ix

8 UNIT 4 People and the Planet unit INTRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL It s Never Too Late John Yee whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY from Silent Spring Rachel Carson ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH Nobel Lecture: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Al Gore Nobel Acceptance Speech Al Gore POETRY Turtle Watchers Linda Hogan Nature Is What We See Emily Dickinson The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar MEDIA: SLIDE SHOW Eagle Tracking at Follensby Pond Nature Conservancy He-y, Come On Ou-t! Shinichi Hoshi WRITING FOCUS Write an Argument SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present an Argument x Grade 7

9 essential question: What effects do people have on the environment? Independent Learning NOVEL EXCERPT from My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George POETRY The Last Wolf Mary TallMountain MYTH from Keepers of the Earth Joseph Bruchac EXPOSITORY NONFICTION A Sea of Plastic: Understanding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch performance-based assessment Argument: Essay and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit EXPOSITORY NONFICTION The Story of Victor d Aveyron, the Wild Child SCIENCE ESSAY from Of Wolves and Men Barry Lopez Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Argumentative Essay SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents xi

10 UNIT 5 Facing Adversity unit INTRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: INFORMATIONAL MODEL Against the Odds Julia Paz whole-class learning The Dust Bowl and the Depression NBC Learn ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY Out of the Dust Karen Hesse AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE A Work in Progress Aimee Mullins AUTOBIOGRAPHY from The Story of My Life Helen Keller The Miracle Worker William Gibson NEWS ARTICLE A Young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Electrifying a Nation Sarah Childress ANCHOR TEXT: The Circuit Francisco Jimenez WRITING FOCUS Write an Informational Text SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present an Informational Text xii Grade 7

11 essential question: How do we overcome obstacles? Independent Learning AUTOBIOGRAPHY from My Beloved World Sonia Sotomayor The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Juliane Koepcke NOVEL EXCERPT Four Skinny Trees from The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros from Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li Jang performance-based assessment Informational: Text and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit Rikki-tikki-tavi Rudyard Kipling from Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Informational Text SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents xiii