Grade 7

❔ Essential Question: What effects do people have on the environment?

🔍 Focus Standards

7.R.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

7.R.2 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.

7.R.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

7.R.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.

7.W.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

7.W.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.

📖 Novel Study Suggestions

🔗 ELA Supplemental Book List

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) | William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer, and Anna Hymas | 860L

• The Clay Marble | Minfong Ho | 860L

• Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | 1020L

• Hoot | Carl Hiassen | 760L

• Return to Sender | Julia Alvarez | 890L

• The Storm in the Barn ) Matt Phelan | GN560L

• Where the Watermelons Grow | Cindy Baldwin | 1020L

• World Without Fish | Mark Kurlansky and Frank Stockton | 1160L

• The Worst Hard Time | Timothy Egan | NP

• Seeds of Change | Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynn Sadler | 820L

📰 Newsela Supplementary Resources

🔉 Listenwise (Podcast) Supplementary Resources

Listenwise: The Pandemic's Impact on the Envronment 

Listenwise: The Warming Earth 

PBS American Masters: A Fierce Green Fire