ESSENTIAL COURSE OF STUDY: GRADE 7 (DRAFT)

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1 ESSENTIAL COURSE OF STUDY: GRADE 7 (DRAFT) Quarter 1 August 28- Nov. 2 Unit 1 Unit 2 RW: Parts of a Story Seventh Grade The Lost Dog Thank You, M am An American Childhood Plot and Conflict Setting Sequence Cause-effect RW: Character and Point of View Zebra The Scholarship Jacket Retrieved Reformation The Three-Century Woman/Charles Character Traits Point of View Characterization Visualize and Predict The Unnatural Course of Time Writer s position Compare and Contrast The Collective Grief of a Nation/A Mother s Words/U.S. Involvement in Vietnam Encounter with Martin Luther King Jr. Synthesize Conclusions (bold faced samples are placed into red folder) Descriptive Essay Student Self Assessment (Reading and Writing) Informal Reading Inventory (administer individually/ single passage) Cloze Test (group administration/ single passage) Writing Sample (group administration) Reading Check (in Resource Manager) Selection Tests (A striving reader?s; B/C on or above?s; selection specific) Unit Tests (A and B/C versions - new passages) Benchmark Tests (4 times a year - cumulative) Grammar Pretests, Mid-point Tests, and Mastery Tests Comparison/Contrast Essay

2 Quarter 2 Nov. 5- Jan. 18 Unit 3 Unit 4 RW: Theme Amigo Brothers What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? Spring Harvest of Snow Peas/Eating Alone Theme versus topic Theme/Recurring theme Symbol/Inferences Compare and Contrast RW: Mood, Tone, and Style Dark They Were, and Golden- Eyed A Day s Wait The People Could Fly Mood Style Dialogue Homeless Author s Perspective Support an opinion How Hemingway Wrote The Only Girl / Breaking the Ice Fact and Opinion Instructions Tone Unit 9 Research Strategies Workshop Plan research Use the internet Evaluate information Choose and evaluate sources Find and narrow topic Take notes Avoid plagiarism Document sources Interpretive Essay Research Report (flexible due date completed by May 31, 2007)

3 Quarter 3 Jan. 22- March 20 Unit 5 Unit 6 RW: Appreciating Poetry The Names The earth is a /Sleeping in the /Gold The Charge of the /The Highwayman Jabberwocky/Sarah Cynthia /Two Limericks Imagery/ figurative language Sound device Rhythm and meter Speakers Poetic form RW: Myths, Legends and Tales Prometheus/Orpheus Young Arthur Brer Possum s Dilemma Sally Ann Two Ways to /The Race Between Toad Characteristics of myths, legends, tales Cultural values Universal themes Chronological order Monitor Visualize Serf on the Run/Medieval adventure Opinions Compare reactions Cause and effect essay

4 Quarter 4 March 31- June 5 Unit 7 RW: Biography and Autobiography Eleanor Roosevelt Malcolm X: By Any Means Noble Experiment Characteristics of Biography and Autobiography Chronological order Summarize Letter to the President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution/The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Montreal Signs Negro Shortstop/Robinson Steals Home in Fifth Synthesize Conclusion Treatment and scope Evaluate texts Personal Narrative Formal Presentation Unit 8 RW: Information, Argument, and Persuasion What Do You Know About Sharks? Great White Sharks Like Black Smoke/A World Turned- Pro Athlete s / Do Professional Text features Outline Fact and opinion Author s bias Patterns of organization Argument Reasoning Student Resources Handbook Persuasion Informational documents Mechanical device Persuasive Essay Persuasive Speech Summary Oral Summary

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