7th grade ELA

To start the year we will be reading a Fiction novel together as a group and using strategies to "talk to the text" to better comprehend our reading. Throughout the year we will be introduced to various fiction text and an array of assignments to go along with those text. Students will be involved in a large poetry unit and they will enter their poetry into a contest of their choice!

Some books/works may include:

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Monsters are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• Student Self-Selected Titles
• Poetry Unit: Poem-a-Day and analysis
• Junior Great Books Roundtable Series: Level 3. Great Books Foundation, 2010