7th Grade ELA

Our Week at a Glance:

Our Essential Question (what guides our thinking this unit?)

• Is exploring the unknown worth the risks?

Our Analyses (What did students learn last week?): 

• Students completed a reading assessment on Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

Our Texts (What are we reading this week?)

• A Wrinkle in Time - Students read at their own pace

• Let Robots Take to the Stars - HMH p. 286

Current Focus (What are we doing in class this week?):

• Continue our novel study: A Wrinkle in Time - Cite Textual Evidence - Inferences vs. Explicit Details, Summarize

• Teach Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning using informational texts on space travel

• Students track their claim, evidence, and reasons using an annotation and claim tracker