Students, if you are absent, please click the links below to see the daily assignments.
LINKS:
Mrs. Wheeler's 702 Assignment Website
Mrs. Wheeler's 801 & 802 Assignment Website
Curriculum Guide for 7th and 8th ELA
STAR Reading Test Login
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2026-2027
702 Literature and Writing Overview
(Subject to change)
August/September Units: short stories, elements of fiction, plural and possessive nouns, capitalization, punctuating titles, proofreader's marks; write a letter to a special person; NWEA fall testing
October Unit: Read the novelThe Outsiders; subjects, predicates, fragments, run-ons; write a personal narrative
November Unit: Poetry, parts of speech, figurative language; write a second personal narrative
December Unit: A Christmas Carol: NWEA winter testing
January Units: Read the novel The Giver; troublesome words; irregular verbs; STAR reading test
February Units: Nonfiction; root words; write compare/contrast essay; write name research essay
March Units: Read the novel Prisoner B-3087; root words and suffixes; modifiers; Biography of a Classmate interview and essay
April Units: Continue Prisoner B-3087 novel; root words; subject-verb agreement; argumentative essay; NWEA spring testing
May Units: Read the play The Miracle Worker; STAR reading test
We will read selections from our Literature textbook and the StudySync consumable workbooks.
We begin our class with ten minutes of silent reading of a book of the student's choice that has been teacher approved. Students do a written report over one book per quarter.
(subject to change)
August/September Units: short stories, elements of fiction, graphic stories, literary analyses, proofreader's marks, parts of speech; NWEA fall testing; STAR reading test
October Units: novella (The Pearl); punctuation marks; personal narrative
November Unit: elements of poetry; poems; figurative language; parodies
December Unit: Flowers for Algernon; NWEA winter testing
January Unit: Read the play The Diary of Anne Frank; STAR reading test; troublesome words; journaling
February Units: High school research slideshow; Nonfiction; Respect Life essay; parallelism
March Units:TED Talk; modifiers; Nonfiction continued; STAR reading test
April Units: Read To Kill a Mockingbird; research paper
May Units: graduation speech; six-word memoirs; NWEA spring testing
We will read selections from our Literature textbook and the consumable StudySync workbooks.
We begin our class with ten minutes of silent reading of a book of the student's choice that has been teacher approved. Students will do a written report over one book per quarter. First quarter book report is due October 9.
Each day students have a Word of the Day to learn. They write the part of speech, definition, a sentence using the word, and an illustration. We have a vocabulary test after 10 words are given. We also have one foreign expression each week that students are encouraged to say. Students take a test at the end of each quarter over the foreign expressions.
MIDDLE SCHOOL TEST CALENDAR