Syllabus

Class Description:

• Students will experience a wide variety of activities and topics intended to develop and strengthen English/Language Arts skills as aligned with the Wisconsin State Standards at the seventh grade level. Our studies will be focused on reading literature, reading informational text, writing (for a variety of purposes), language, and speaking and listening.

Writers in Training – Writing to Inform (Unit 1) – Quarter 1

• Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
• Paragraph writing
• Multi-paragraph essay writing
• Grammar

Elements of story telling (Unit 2) – Quarter 2

• Short Stories
• Novel (The Outsiders)
• Literary Analysis

The Art of Persuasion (Unit 3) – Quarter 3

• Performance Assessments
  • Ethos, Pathos, Logos
• Personal Research Essay
  • Three Sources required
  • Works Cited
  • Internal Citations

Advertising Unit (Unit 4) – Quarter 3 (Persuasion)

• Commercial Advertising Project

Test Prep Unit (Unit 5) – Beginning of Quarter 4

• Review of major concepts and skills covered on the Wisconsin Forward Exam

Poetry Analysis (Unit 6) Final Unit of the year! My Fav!

• Analyzing poems from long ago and poems from today.
• Poetry Book!