ELA

6th Grade ELA

For 3rd Quarter, 6th graders will be working on our Greek Mythology Unit. We will be reading The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan as we track Percy's journey to the Underworld and back. Our focus will be on plot, theme, and character traits.

7th Grade ELA

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." -Lois Lowry

Our 7th grade ELA students are diving into some exciting new learning! We’re continuing to build strong reading and writing skills by analyzing texts, finding evidence to support our ideas, and exploring how themes grow and develop throughout a story. Before we jump into our next novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, students will read a few short stories to discover what makes dystopian literature so fascinating. As we read The Giver, students will take a closer look at how characters and their choices shape the plot and how a character’s point of view can change as the story unfolds. This novel provides an exciting unit full of curiosity and great discussions!

Additionally, along the way, we’ll keep building reading comprehension, exploring rich vocabulary (including figurative and technical language), and practicing clear, purposeful writing for different audiences.

8th Grade ELA

The 3rd Quarter focuses on historical fiction, where we will read multiple Holocaust novels. We'll have a class read aloud with Night and book clubs with various novels such as The Diary of Anne Frank, The Berlin Boxing Club, Between Shades of Gray, and Prisoner B-3087. Students will focus on theme development and write a literary analysis as a culminating summative.

This quarter's word work will focus on idioms. Students always enjoy learning about these fun phrases. We'll put our noses to the grindstone to get cracking and hit the books with these clever turns of phrase.

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