Quarter 1:
Week 1 -Figurative language
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4 Breadwinner and grammar quiz
Week 5 Informational Article; compare fiction to non fiction; cover personification and hyperbole
Week 6 - Denotatation and connotation ; Reading summative assessment
Week 7 participal phrases; informational writing; Scope March 2019 paired text
Week 8 - adverb clauses; CFA #4 (grammar assessment); Informational Writing
Week 9 - Scope; writing assessment; CFA #5; Exam review; Q1 Exam
Quarter 2:
Week 1 ELAGSE7RI5: Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text; ELAGSEW3-Narrative Writing; I am Malala
Fall Break
Week 2 I am Malala; adverb clauses; analyzing text structure: CFA 6
Week 3 I am Malala; ELAGSE7RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.; adjective clauses
Week 4 I am Malala - Argumentative Writing; CFA 7
Week 5 ELAGSE7L1: b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas. CFA 8; argumentative writing quiz
Week 6 - argumentative writing assessment
Week 7 STAR Winter benchmark; types of sentences; ELAGSE7RI2: Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.; mock writing assessment
Week 8 Scope Magazine drama; sentence types: Have students practice writing types of sentences and combining sentences.
Week 9 Exam review; Q2 ELA Exam (CFA 9 and CFA 10)
Quarter 3:
Week 1 - Begin The Giver; Characterization - ELAGSE7RL3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how settings shape the characters or plot); Grammar: ELAGSE7L1c. Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
Week 2 - continue misplaced and dangling modifiers; Literary POV - ELAGSE7RL6: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. Literary POV - ELAGSE7RL6: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text. Review figurative language, teach idioms
Week 3 Coordinate adjectives: ELAGSE7L2 a. Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives; Narrative writing and narrative writing assessment
Week 4 Objective Summary: ELAGSE7RL2: provide an objective summary of the text. Reveiw Theme - ELAGSE7RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text ; Review misplaced/dangling mods and coordinate adjectives; Health Survey; CFA 12 literary reading and grammar test; The Giver
Week 5 Argumentative Writing - ELAGSE7W1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence; Types of sentences review - ELAGSE7L1: b. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among idea; The Giver
Week 6 - argumentative essay; The Giver
Winter Break
Week 7 CFA reading and grammar test; The Giver
Week 8 Finish The Giver
Week 9; Exam Review; Q3 ELA Exam
Quarter 4:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9