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Literature Grade 7:
In literature class the students will read, write, listen, and speak for
1) information and understanding
2) literary response and expression
3) critical analysis and evaluation
4) social interaction
All classes will participate in the following activities:
- Reading novels, short stories, plays, poems, and nonfiction pieces all focused around a thematic unit of study
- Expository, narrative, descriptive, and persuasive writing
- Peer-revision
- Class discussions/debates about topics related to literature
- Group work, projects, and presentations
- Keeping a reader’s response log while reading novels to promote critical thinking
- Independent reading
- Writer’s workshop
Students in seventh grade expand upon the literary elements and devices learned in sixth grade. They will think even more critically and analytically, as they handle more difficult concepts in literature. They will also participate in a classroom trial, which is both fun and educational. Students will build upon their previous writing skills and will be responsible for mini-research assignments in addition to literature based papers, stories, fairy tales, and plays.
In seventh grade, the students will explore the following units:
- Short Stories (a review of literary elements)
- “Seventh Grade” –Gary Soto
- “After Twenty Years” –O Henry
- “Two Kinds” –Amy Tan
- The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
- from “Song of Myself”; “Me”; “I’m Nobody” (poems)
- “All Summer in a Day” –Ray Bradbury
- Tuck Everlasting –Natalie Babbitt or The Giver –Lois Lowry
- A Christmas Carol (play)
- “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- “Four Skinny Trees” –nonfiction piece
- Greek Mythology and Poetry
- “Icarus and Daedalus”
- “Persephone and Demeter”
- “Narcissus”
- “Phaethon: Son of Apollo”
- A number of poems
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