Seventh Grade English Language Arts
On the "Welcome" Page, there is a link to a syllabus for both seventh and eighth English Language Arts . This page is specifically for seventh grade; it contains all of the information you will need throughout the year. Books may be listed more than once, which means that we will return to them.
Here is our course outline for ELA
- Written in Bone
- Ode to the Virginian Voyage
- Written in Bone
- Blood on the River
- Pocahontas
- student debate
- narrative essay
- Puzzles of Chesapeake
- Forensic Anthropology
- 30,000 Skeletons (video)
- extended response
- The Treasure of Lemon Brown
- A Christmas Carol
- A History of Christmas
- students will write an opinion essay
- The Gift of the Magi
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- students will write a research report
- The Giver
- Preamble to the United States Constitution
- The Hunger Games
- Opinion Essay
- Imagine
- The Human Abstract
- The Giver
- Harrison Bergeron
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay
- How to Write a Memoir
- Eleven
- Thank You Ma'am
- Oranges
- Short Memoirs: Six Little Words Can be Revealing
- students will write their own memoirs
- Advice for Writers
- Chapter V: An Approach to Style
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Behind the Scenes
- The People Could Fly
- Frederick Douglas's Autobiography
- The Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craft
- argumentative essay
- Behind the Scenes
- (films) Mary Todd Lincoln
- Notable Visitors: Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
- President Lincoln's Inauguration
- O Captain, My Captain!
- A Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Mary Todd Lincoln
- Cold Read (multiple choice)
- Cold Read (multi-paragraph essay)
- Multimedia presentation
- Research Essay