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Tutoring for 7th Grade
T, W, Th @12:30
Office Hours by Appointment
Monday-Thursday 1:30-2:00
619.535.9334 text only
Education Specialist
and Co-Teacher
Office Hours
11:45-12:45
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Distance Learning
UNIT 1: Narrative and Nonfiction
Students begin with narrative writing to quickly boost their writing production, to learn the foundational skill of Focus and to become comfortable with the key classroom habits and routines they will use all year. After exploring the details of how they describe their own experiences and emotions, students pay the same kind of close attention to analyzing the details presented in the unit’s core text: Ji-li Jiang’s Red Scarf Girl, her memoir of growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution.
Texts
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
EXTRA: Excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
EXTRA: "A Boy's Summer Song" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Skills and Content
Character and Narrator: Examine the differences between a character’s thoughts and actions
Writing: Use revision to strengthen elaboration
Text Structure: Conventions of memoirs, propaganda
Content: Mid-20th century communist China