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Curriculum Link for ELA 7
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will show mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will work on pronouns in their Spectrum Language Arts workbook, "Personal Pronouns: Lesson 1.5 1-10 on page 13, and Lesson 1.5 page 14
Activities: Taking the vocabulary test
Completing the pages in the workbook
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will read and understand Chapter 5, "I Play Pinochle With A Horse," regarding the plot: Percy meets Chiron and Mr. D, Percy understands CHB's purpose, Percy learns of the theft, the summer solstice, and the themes: amazement, intrigue, trust, and the literary devices in the chapter
Activity: Reading and discussion with students assuming character parts
Identification of the literary elements in the chapter
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will complete an evidence-finding exercise answering questions for chapter 4 with ONLY direct, properly cited evidence from the text
The students will study for the vocabulary test
Activities: Completing the evidence work
Studying, practicing cursive
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will learn (10) context words from the novel: probation, dyslexia, hallucination, delinquent, expelled, stalks, mortal, lethal, threshold, patron
The students will read and understand Chapter 4, "My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting," regarding the plot: Percy, Grover, and Sally Jackson's frantic drive to Camp Half-Blood; the fight with the Minotaur, the loss of Percy's mom, Percy waking up at CHB. and the themes: fear, loss, bravery, and the literary elements in the chapter.
Activity: Defining the vocabulary words using Quizlet
Reading and discussion with students assuming character parts
Identification of the literary elements in the chapter
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, December 1, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will write in reaction to reading Chapter 3, "Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants," describing a setting in the chapter, regarding its importance in connection to a particular character. They will choose from 7 questions. This piece must include at least one piece of properly cited text evidence.
Activity: Discussion and choosing of topics
Drafting the response and finding the appropriate evidence
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will read Chapter 3, "Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants," understanding the plot: Percy's return home and exchange with his step-father, Percy's mom arriving, and the two of them heading to Montauk, Grover's frantic midnight visit to their beach house, and the themes: abuse, love, danger, as well as the literary elements in the chapter.
Activities:
Reading and discussion with the students assuming character parts
Identification of the literary elements
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, November 24, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will start an evidence-finding exercise, answering questions for Chapter 2, "Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death" with ONLY properly cited, direct text evidence
Activities: Independent completion of Evidence Exercise 1
Reading independently
Cursive practice
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, November 21, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will start an evidence-finding exercise, answering questions for Chapter 2, "Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death" with ONLY properly cited, direct text evidence
Activities: Independent completion of Evidence Exercise 1
Reading independently
Cursive practice
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will begin reading Chapter 2, "Three Old Ladies Knit The Socks Of Death" and understand the plot: Percy is expelled; Percy overhears Mr. Brunner and Grover talking about him; Grover asks to accompany Percy home, and the themes: betrayal, frustration, and the literary terms present in the writing
The students will identify the literary elements in the chapter
Activities: Reading and discussion of the chapter with students assuming character parts
Literary Elements identified
Resources: Google Classroom, Quizlet, Literary Terms packet
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Novel Unit 2
The Lightning Thief
Objectives: The students will begin to read The Lightning Thief, Chapter 1, "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher" regarding the plot: Percy is attacked by a demon; themes, friendship and good vs. evil; and characterizations; Percy is unlucky but fair, Grover is kind; Mr. Brunner is helpful; Mrs. Dodds is evil, as well as identifying the figurative language in the chapter
Activities: Reading Chapter 1
Literary Terms packet
Resources: Chromebooks, Google Classroom
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will demonstrate understanding the novel The View From Saturday on a final test that contains both plot and literary element questions
Activities: Taking the test
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, November 17, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will review the novel, The View From Saturday, in preparation for a test on the book on Tuesday, November 18.
Activities: Test review
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, November 14, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will complete their long responses about settings in the novel
Activities: Independent work on the essay
Studying for Monday's test on the plot of the book
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will write a long response in reaction to reading the novel, addressing the concept of "setting" and how it affects the "mood" of a story.
Activities: Class discussion of "setting" and "mood"
Selection of two settings in the story from a list of choices
Filling in the writing template and finding evidence to support the claim
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will finish reading The View From Saturday (pages 199-214)
Activities: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
No School- Veteran's Day
Monday, November 10, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will continue reading The View From Saturday, (pages 189-198)
Activities: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, November 7, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will practice reading comprehension using their online workbook, Spectrum Reading, Grade 7. They will read, "Take a Hike, Allergies" on page 8 and answer questions on page 9, some of which require text evidence
Activities: Taking the vocabulary test
Completing the workbook assignment independently
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will continue to read the novel as the Souls continue their success as an academic team (pages 180 - 188)
Activities: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will complete Evidence Exercise 10 answering with ONLY properly cited text from the book
Activities: Independent completion of Evidence Exercise 10
Reading independently
Cursive practice
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objectives: The students will continue to read the novel as the Souls continue their success as an academic team (pages 168 - 180)
Activities: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, November 3, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn 10 new context words from the novel: maneuver, trounce, mediocre, stealth, unprecedented, converge, complement, commissioner, audible, genes
Periods 5 and 8 will take Friday's vocabulary quiz
The students will complete missing work, Writing Prompt 4
Activities: Defining the vocabulary
Completing missing work
Reading independently
Practicing cursive
Completing independent writing projects for Quarter 1
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, October 31, 2025🎃
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will read a short story, "The Hitch Hiker" and answer the questions that follow it: recall and interpret and locating literary devices in the story.
Activites: Taking the vocabulary test
Reading the story
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continuing reading The View From Saturday from page 161 which is the narrative as told from Mrs. Olinski's point of view.
The students will identify the literary devices in the writing
Activity: Reading and discussion
Identification of the literary devices numbers 29-46
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of "Nouns" on an assessment: common and proper, collective, plural, possessive, and appositive nouns
Activity: Test on Nouns
Independent reading
Practicing cursive
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will work independently on Writing Prompt 4, "Irony in Julian's Narrative"
The students will complete a template and begin the draft
Activity: Independent work
Studying for Wednesday's grammar test on nouns
Resources: Google Classroom
Homework: Study for test on nouns
Monday, October 27, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn (10) new context words from the novel: naturalization, dazzling, defective, scavenger, spontaneous, acronym, domestic, ruckus, expelled, malice
The students will begin a writing prompt exploring the concept of irony in Julian's story
Activities: Defining the vocabulary
The students will talk about how irony plays a role in Julian's section of the book. A list of possible topics will be discussed, and students will choose one to write about
Resources: Google Classroom
Homework: Study for test on nouns
Friday, October 24, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will practice "Appositives" using their grammar workbooks pages 13-14
Activities: Taking the vocabulary quiz
Completing the grammar workbook assignment
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will work on nouns in their online grammar workbooks, covering the last topic: appositives.
The students will review "nouns" using a Jeopardy
Activities: Completing the appositive exercises
Playing the Jeopardy game
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will complete the evidence exercise on the second of Julian's story, answering with ONLY properly cited text evidence.
Activity: Independent completion of the assignment
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will start an evidence exercise on the second of Julian's story, answering with ONLY properly cited text evidence.
Activity: Independent completion of the assignment
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, October 20, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn (10) new context words: tranquilizer, jabber, overture, quaver, tolerance, scold, enchanting, ceremonious, posh, Impressionism
The students will continue reading Julian's narrative, "Julian Narrates When Ginger Played Annie’s Sandy," as the story is told through a fourth perspective. (135-161)
Activities: Defining the vocabulary words
Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, October 17, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue work on "Nouns" in Spectrum Language Arts: Appositives
Activity: Workbook pages 11-12
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue work on "Nouns" in Spectrum Language Arts: collective, abstract, plurals, possessives
Activities: Workbook pages 6-10
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will complete an evidence exercise on the first part of Julian's story, answering with ONLY properly cited text evidence.
Activity: Independent completion of the assignment
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will complete their writing prompts on symbolism in Ethan's story.
The students will begin reading Julian's narrative, "Julian Narrates When Ginger Played Annie’s Sandy."
Activities: Finishing the writing prompt if necessary
Reading in Julian's story
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, October 10, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will continue writing their piece on symbolism in The View From Saturday
Activities: Taking the vocabulary test
Independent work on the writing prompt
One-on-One conferencing with students
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will write in reaction to reading Ethan's, Nadia's, and Noah's stories choosing a symbol presented in the novel and explaining how it comes into the story and what it stands for or represents in connection with the character to which it is associated. They will include at least one piece of properly cited text evidence.
Activity: Brainstorming as a class
Choosing a symbol
Looking for evidence
Starting the first draft
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue reading Ethan's narrative in the story, "Ethan Explains the B&B Inn," introducing the readers to Ethan's backstory and enhancing the small window into Ethan's personality that was provided in Nadia's narrative. Ethan's story also provides a first glance at the fourth member of the Souls, Julian Singh.
The students will identify the literary elements in the reading
Activity: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will begin reading Ethan's narrative in the story, "Ethan Explains the B&B Inn," introducing the readers to Ethan's backstory and enhancing the small window into Ethan's personality that was provided in Nadia's narrative.
The students will identify the literary elements in the reading
Activity: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, October 6, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn (10) new context words from the story: frenzy, narrative, nonchalantly, procedure, perch, inevitable, paraplegic, chanteuse, detect, understudy
The students will complete their short responses on conflict in Nadia's story using at least one piece of properly cited text evidence to support their claim
Activity: Individual completion of the writing prompt
One-on-One conferencing with individual students
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, October 3, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will work in their online grammar workbook, Spectrum Language Arts, on "collective nouns; nouns that signify a group but are treated as singular, and abstract nouns; nouns that cannot be seen or perceived by the senses"
Activities: Taking the vocabulary test
Completion of pages 7 and 8 in the workbook
Independent reading
Cursive Practice
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will write in reaction to reading "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love" discussing a conflict that arises in her narrative. Conflict is defined as, "the struggle between opposing forces in a story."
Activities: Discussion of the types of conflict in Nadia's narrative: person vs. person, person vs. nature
Choosing an example of a conflict from a list
Looking for evidence to support that conflict
Starting to fill in the template
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue reading "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love" discussing a conflict that arises in her narrative. Conflict is defined as, "the struggle between opposing forces in a story."
Activities: Discussion of the types of conflict in Nadia's narrative: person vs. person, person vs. nature
Choosing an example of a conflict from a list
Looking for evidence to support that conflict
Starting to fill in the template
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue reading Nadia's narrative and discussing the different people she argues with or has disputes with
Activity: Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, September 29, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn (10) new words from the novel: incandescently, ecology, hover,
atrocious, zaftig, geography, condominium, protective, gourmet, species
The students will continue to read "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love"
Activity: Defining the vocabulary words
Reading and discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, September 26, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will read an article in Spectrum Reading Comprehension, "Cooking 101" and answer 6 questions that include both recall and interpret
Activities: Taking the vocabulary test
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will begin reading Nadia's narrative, "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love"
Activity: Reading and discussion of Nadia's story
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will go over the definitions of the following literary terms:
simile, metaphor, irony, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, foreshadowing, allusion, symbolism, flashback, idiom, imagery, pun
The students will identify the literary devices in Noah's narration
Activity: Group discussion of the terms
Class identification of the literary elements in the novel thus far
Resources: Google Classroom
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will complete their short responses on characterization in "Noah Writes A B&B"
Activities: Independent completion of writing prompts
One-on-one conferencing with students about their writing
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, September 22, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn the first 10 words from the novel: irony, contrast, toppled, signify,
presentable, chupah, coiffed, multiculturalism, diverse, cherub
The students will write a short response about characterization about Noah Gershom, the first narrator in the story.
Activities: Defining the new vocabulary words
Choosing a character trait to prove in a short piece that includes at least one piece of text evidence.
Drafting the writing using a template
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, September 19, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will demonstrate mastery of the week's context vocabulary on an assessment
The students will complete the grammar work in Spectrum Language Arts on p 8 (1-8)
Activity: Taking the vocabulary quiz
Completing grammar work
Reading independently
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Grammar Lesson: Nouns
Objective: The students will learn about nouns: common, proper, concrete, and abstract.
Activity: Using the workbook, The English Grammar Workbook for Grades 6,7, and 8, pages 1-2, and the Spectrum Language Arts e-book, page 7, the students will complete exercises to demonstrate how these nouns are used in sentences
Resources: Google Classroom, grammar books
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will find evidence to answer both direct and inferential questions about the story Noah tells. The answers will be ONLY direct, properly cited text evidence
Activity: Independent work on Evidence Exercise 1
Resources: Google Classroom
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will continue to read Noah's narrative
Activity: Reading and discussion about the setting, plot and characterization evidenced in Noah's section
Resources: Google Classroom
Monday, September 15, 2025
Novel Unit 1
The View From Saturday
Objective: The students will learn the first 10 words from the novel: reasonable, accurate,
epiphany, decorum, benevolent, calligraphy, nitpick, rabbi, nib, unaccompanied
The students will begin to read the novel, A View From Saturday, focusing on the first narrative, "Noah Writes A B&B"
Activity: Reading and discussion about the setting, plot and characterization evidenced in Noah's section
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, September 12, 2025
Summer Reading Book:
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Objectives: The students will finish writing their paragraphs on Salva or Nya about culture, time and place and include 1 piece of text evidence
Activity: Writing the paragraph
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Summer Reading Book:
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Objectives: The students will write their rough drafts and include 1 piece of text evidence
Activity: Writing the paragraph
Resources: Google Classroom
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Summer Reading Book:
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Objectives: The students will go over the culture, time, and place chart discussing Salva and Nya separately.
The students will choose a character to write about in a short response with evidence
Activities: Filling in the writing template
Resources: Google Classroom
Friday, September 5, 2025
Summer Reading Book:
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Objectives: The students will begin to fill in a chart about how culture, time, and place affect the characters of Salva and Nya in the novel. This will include original writing and cited text evidence, and is preparation for a written response next week.
Activities: The class will explore the idea of culture; Salva is a member of the Dinka tribe, and Nya is a member of the Nuer tribe, and how this impacts their lives in the story.
Resources: Google Classroom
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Summer Reading Book:
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Objectives: The students will discuss the thought statements for the novel, stating whether or not they agree or disagree and offering text-based reasons why
Activities: Partner conferencing on the questions
Whole class discussion
Resources: Google Classroom
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