7th grade Gifted Academic Literacy

To start of the year we will be opening with the Super 8 reading strategies! Also, this class will be focusing solely on Non-fiction text. Below is a list of topics we will be discussing over the next few week.

• Super 8 Reading Strategies to build comprehension and become better readers of non-fiction work.
• Newsela is a resource we will use to annotate and "talk to the text" using the Super 6 strategies
• TDA Prep

Units

• Brain Science
• Lit Circle: Perseverance in the face of adversity
• Refugee Unit
• Bot building and written programming instruction
• Science Fair Enrichment (optional)
• What are We Eating?

Books/Research material may include

• Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
• All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Braggs
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Che Guevara: You Win or You Die by Stuart A. Kallen
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• My Thirteenth Winter by Samantha Abeel
• Outcasts United by Warren St. John
• The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
• Where am I Eating? By Kelsey Timmerman
• A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
• NewsELA.com
• Commonlit.org
• Student Self-Selected Titles